*FG okays N27.3bn for Ondo-Edo road rehabilitationThe Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved a total sum of N580.5 million for the purchase of four armoured personnel vehicles for the use of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency .
The agency was in the news this month when it seized cocaine worth about $278 million, which in Naira value translates to about N194billion. “It has a delivery period of 16 weeks. It is common knowledge to all that in recent times the NDLEA has been repositioned and arising from the support in terms of capacity building hardware and associated things, they have recorded an extra ordinary unprecedented success.
“The memo was taken and at the end of the day, it was approved, contract for the procurement of 14 seater armoured personnel vehicles which was approved. The delivery period for the vehicles to the NDLEA is 16 weeks from today. And the company that has been granted the contract is Devcom Integrated Services Limited.
FEC also approved the sum of N27.233 billion for the rehabilitation of 30-kilometer Idoani-Otuo road linking Ondo and Edo states and N1.85 billion for the construction of a 27-kilometer retaining wall at the Salt Lake in Ebonyi state.
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