The Federal Executive Council FEC, yesterday approved a N4.6 billion
contract for the purchase of fire fighting equipment. Speaking to
statehouse correspondents after the meeting, Minister of Interior,
Abdulrahman Dambazzau, said the last time fire fighting equipment were
bought in Nigeria by the government was in 1996.
"The Federal Executive Council has approved the procurement of some fire
fighting equipment. The last time such equipment were procured was
sometime in 1996 and so equipment in the inventory were those procured
between 1985 and 1996 and since then there was no procurement"he said
