/ 10 May 1999

NIGERIAN LEADER STOP SPENDING

NIGERIA’S military ruler General Abdulsalami Abubakar has put a stop to 660 million dollars’ worth of last minute spending plans by his outgoing administration, a report said Saturday. Abubakar, who steps down at the end of this month, ordered the freeze on new capital project spending at a meeting of the military-led government in Abuja on Wednesday, the newspaper This Day reported. The halt came after opposition from incoming president Olusegun Obasanjo, who is due to take power on May 29, it said. Obasanjo met Abubakar at a agriculture sector function last month and raised his objections then, reports said.