The Federal Executive ouncil (FEC) has approved a contract worth N1.4 billion for surveillance equipment at the Kaduna and Port Harcourt airports.
The council gave the approval on Wednesday in a meeting
presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja.
Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, who briefed journalists
after the meeting, said the project would be executed within 30 weeks.
He said: “The approval is for the award of contracts for the
design, supply and maintenance of mobile surveillance observation systems with
remote controlled licence and these are for the airports of Port Harcourt and
Kaduna and it will continue to other airports progressively.
“We are beginning with the first two but, it will continue
with the remaining airports in the future, and the contract sum for this
particular procurement is N1, 499,603,500.00 including the 7.5 percent
value-added tax, and it will be delivered within 30 weeks.”
Sirika also said the council approved the signing of a
Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) between Nigeria and Canada.
“The approval we got was for the signing of a bilateral air
service agreement between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the government of
Canada, and this is in accordance with the Chicago convention, to which both
Nigeria and Canada are signatories,” the minister said.
“The highlights of the Bilateral Air Service Agreement
between us and Canada involve the granting of rights and privileges as well as
the designation of airlines authorisation, withholding, revocation, suspension
and limitation of authorisation as well as application of national laws and
regulations.
“Other components are safety standards certificate and
licences, aviation security, custom duties and other charges, statistics
pricing and general terms and conditions of carriage, availability of airports
and aviation facilities and services, airline representatives, ground handling,
sales and transfer of funds, consultations, amendments therefrom, settlement of
disputes, entry into force among others.”
He added that the council approved that “we should go ahead
and sign the bilateral air service agreement between us and Canada for all of
the benefits to be driven therefrom, mutually”.
On his part, Sulieman Adamu, minister of water resources,
said the council also approved the augmentation of N6 billion for the Chochi
irrigation project in Adamawa State.
“Contractors of the company have been there on the site for
like 24 years and they’ve lost quite a lot of experts along the way. And
therefore, we have now been able to reinforce the original contractor. Rather
than terminate the contract, we feel it is better to just continue by
reinforcing the efforts of the contractor through a joint venture with another
company which is a Nigerian company, Messers Hydro Source and Resources
Limited.
“So it is a joint venture between Messers Impressive Bakolori
and Messers Hydro Source and Resources Limited and augmentation for N6 billion
to take the project to N11.026 billion with an additional extension period of
24 months, plus 12 months effect liability period, making a total of 36
months,” he said.
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