FEC Approves Procurement of Fire-fighting Equipment for N10.4bn

 

The Federal Executive Council has approved N10.4bn for the procurement of fire-fighting vehicles and equipment for the Federal Fire Service.

Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this to State House correspondents after Wednesday's council meeting. 

The approval, he said, covered the supply of 44 fire-fighting engines, supply of 15 water tankers, 15 rapid intervention fire engines and supply of 20 basic life support ambulances.

So in all, we are talking about 79 firefighting equipment and support vehicles,” the minister explained.

Aregbesola said the council also approved N353.2m for the deployment of an integrated real-time data repository equipment for the Nigeria Immigration Service headquarters, Abuja.

He said the purpose was to ensure that the service had all its data on one platform for effective management.