I am Squatting in Abuja Because President Buhari's Ministers Have No Accommodations - Kachikwu

Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu,has revealed President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministers are currently facing accommodation challenges due to exorbitant cost of renting or buying a house in the federal capital as against the amount earmarked as housing allowances.

Kachikwu in an exclusive footage by SIGNAL confirmed President Buhari has not been unable to solve the problem of accommodation bedeviling his ministers said:

“One issue that we have been unable to solve is finding accommodation for Ministers. We have not been able to find money to do that. I live in my home, I’m sure he lives in his home”, Kachikwu said referring to another colleague who in turn immediately responded that he is squatting in Abuja.

"The ministers have been facing serious challenges with accommodation and they put their heads together to go and see the President hoping that they could persuade him to do something. Dalung was the spokesperson of the ministers, Communication Minister Adebayo Shittu was also at the meeting. Where the problem started was when Dalung started making reference to how ministers got a nice accommodation package under previous governments. He actually said that under Jonathan, ministers were given N20 million each for accommodation. When he said that, Buhari asked if he meant N20 million for all the ministers and Dalung replied that it was N20 million per person. It was at this point that Buhari stood up and said he was taking his leave and leaving Osinbajo to “sort it out” with them”, an informed source told a reporter.

Conspicuously absent at the meeting with Buhari were the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola and Minister of Solid Minerals, Kayode Fayemi.