The Federal Executive Council(FEC) on Wednesday approved the sum of N970.2 million for the provision of residential accommodation for the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).

Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after the FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The meeting lasted late into in the night.

Ahmed said that the accommodation was important because the NCS, being a para-military organisation, was trying to ensure that its members of staff were kept in barracks.

“The Nigeria Customs got approval today for acquisition of residential accommodation for the staff of the service.

“What the Customs is acquiring is an estate that has a total of 42 flats and the total cost is N152 million per block of six units.

“The approval that we got today is in the total sum of N970.2 million inclusive of VAT.”

She said that the NCS, in its desire to upgrade its services to international best practice in information and communication, also got an approval to procure modern communication gadgets.

She listed some of the gadgets as HF radios, BHF radios, walkie takies, cable towers and accessories.

The minister said that the gadgets were necessary for the Nigeria Customs to enhance its end to end encryption of messages delivery to avoid tapping by unscrupulous elements, smugglers and their cohorts.

“The need has become necessary because of increased onslaught by the service on smuggling and other illegal economic activities.

“The contract that was approved is in the total sum of N247.907 million inclusive of five per cent VAT and the equipment will be delivered within a period of eight weeks.”

Ahmed said that the third paper that was approved for the ministry was an automation project that it had been working on for a very long time.

According to her, the Project Lighthouse is an initiative of Ministry of Finance—a data warehousing system that is integrating different tax related data for the purpose of accurate and effective revenue assessment.

She said the project would also serve in the determination of assets and income status for both corporate and individual tax payers.

“It will help us improve on our tax revenue collection efforts both at the federal and states level.

“The total project cost is in the sum of N710 million,” she said.

On his part, FCT Minister, Mohammed Bello, said that FEC approved the award of contract for the construction of a secondary road linking the town of Dangara to Yaba within Kwali Area Council of FCT.

He said that the road was a continuation of the administration’s infrastructure development which covered the city itself and the surrounding satellite towns.

Bello said that the contract was awarded in the sum of N1.8 billion inclusive of five per cent VAT and timeline of 18 months.

The minister said that contracts were also awarded for supply of equipment and purchase of water tanker for some agencies under the FCT.

“The second projects is a project for the supply of heavy duty equipment for use by the Development Control Department of FCT under the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council.

“These equipment are used by the Development Control to effect needed adjustments to buildings and structures that have contravened set regulations particularly the Abuja MasterPlan which we all know is something that we guard jealously.

“The contract is at the cost of N147.2 million

“The third approval was for the purchase of water tanker and water tenders-four each for the FCT Fire Service.

“It is meant to improve of the complement of equipment and facilities that they have so that they will be in a better position to react to fire incidences so that there will minimal loss of life and damage to property,” he said.

Bello said that third approval was for the sum of N725 million

https://www.akelicious.net/2019/05/fec-approves-n9702m-for-nigeria-customs.html

Congratulations

All money spent must be accountable for.

The kind of monitoring going on in Lagos-Ibadan Expressway must be ensure with this huge project also.

No more stories that touch....like the forever unfinished PDP headquarter that 9 BILLION NAIRA was sunked to but still in its skeletal state!

Ok

For what

Sharks looming project

Barracks is it not a term form the military? I was thinking Customs quarters will suffice

Nigerian barracks most especially the police barracks are usually very terrible , littered with too many children. Always dirty , rough with cloths littering wires like its an exhibition . Army barracks closely follows. If they eventually construct a barrack for custom personells , it will be far worse.

What of Police barracks?

for a project that won't cost loads of money taken from the country's money and the masses are here suffering, what happens to fixing electricity, is it that difficult for Nigeria to make available a 24/7 power supply?

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Nigeria Barracks always look like where beggars rest

good development

Police barracks all over the nation ate an eye sore.
Of what essence is Customs barracks? They ought to be at the entry points , not within the communities.

Good move...but we need to see this things in action.


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A welcome development.
Hope someone won't sit on the money sha

Very nice

Does anyone have an update about that Custom officer that killed the man in that viral video?

Or did he finally escape justice because it was an Igbo man he killed and not a #Zainab or a #Kolade?

And what does the customs need a "barracks" for?

Are they a force?

I'm not against acquiring an accommodation for them but don't call it "barracks".

Associating them with such terminologies is what makes them think they have the licence to kill.

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All money spent must be accountable for.

The kind of monitoring going on in Lagos-Ibadan Expressway must be ensure with this huge project also.

No more stories that touch....like the forever unfinished PDP headquarter that 9 BILLION NAIRA was sunked to but still in its skeletal state!

PDP matter no go kill u...

Ok

martowskin1:


PDP matter no go kill u...

Just as APC matter don injure ur life finish.

TheGreenLand:

Just as APC matter don injure ur life finish.

Who be this?

152 million for a two story House of six flats,hmm,this is incredible,the Nigerian government is indeed a master in wasting resources,this same house will be built comfortably with 30-40 million,I read the other day a road that winners chapel wants to repair in ogun state and was given a bill of 5 million dollars by a construction firm,then the state government came out and said it has awareded that same road for 40 million dollars,can u believe that!!!

Money wey rhem Go Chop Use 50million Construct am

My own problem is for them to be transparent in this custom recruitment exercise.

No be this one we want hear