By Egena Sunday Ode
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved about N11bn contacts for the National Examination. Council (NECO), Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto.
Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, disclosed this on Wednesday after the weekly FEC meeting presided over by Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja.
According to the minister, about five billion naira was approved for the printing of sensitive and necessary material for NECO, while the perimetre fencing of Usman Dan Fodio University would gulp about three billion.
Adamu also said approval for the supply of 18 ambulances to federal unity colleges was given but he did not indicate the cost of the vehicles.
He said: “Council approved three memos and all three of them are contracts. The first one is for the National Examination Council (NECO) for the printing of sensitive and necessary materials, which was given to about, I think, eight contractors in the sum of 5,107,364,373.62.
“The second one is a contract for the supply of 18 ambulances fitted with medical equipment to 18 of our unity schools. We have more than 100 of them; for the 18, we just decided to select three each political zone.
“And the third one is a contract for the perimeter fencing of Usman Dan Fodio University in the sum of 3,269,761,783.43 to Amis Construction Nigeria limited.”
The contact approval for the purchase of operational vehicles was disclosed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina who briefed newsmen along with the Education Minister.
He said contracts worth about N2.5bn were approved for the supply of operational vehicles by Dangote Automobile Nigeria Limited and Messrs Mikaino International Limited within a period of 30 and 14 days respectively.
Emphasized, however, that “the contracts were secured locally based automobile.”
His words: “I will just give details on approval given to the Federal Road Safety Commission to procure operational vehicles. So FRSC got approval to buy operational vehicles. One was given to Dangote Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited and then the second one was for procurement of saloon cars in favour of Messrs Mikaino International Limited. Everything came to 2,578,948,164.36 kobo only. .
Dangote Peugeot is to supply within 30 days while Mikaino international is to supply within 14 days. So for Dangote Peugeot it is to supply 18 Landtrek pickup at N18,172,875.00 each totaling N145,383,000.00 and 90 at N20,889,999 each totaling N1,880,099,910.00. And then for Mikaino it is to supply 20 number Nissan Almera Acenta at the cost of N12,255,000.00 each.”
