The Federal Executive Council (FEC) Wednesday approved N107 billion for the remediation of newly identified hydrocarbon impacted sites along the shoreline of Ogoni land.
Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly FEC meeting chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
“Two major contracts were approved for Ogoni. They include contract for a water project that has been awarded under the 2nd phase in Ogoni land, amounting to N22.8 billion.
“Approval was also given for the award of contract for the remediation of newly identified hydrocarbon impacted sites along the shoreline of Ogoni land and this is for about N107 billion,” he said.
He said the council also approved over N33 billion for the completion of some major roads in Borno, Adamawa, Kogi, Delta, Ondo, Ogun and Benue states.
He said N10.3 billion was approved by the council for the construction of a multi-story office complex of the Federal Inland Revenue Service in Lagos.
Also speaking, Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo, said the council approved N4.3 for the procurement of security gadgets for the Nigeria Railway Corporation.
He said the equipment include scanners, metal and bomb detectors and narcotics detectors among others.
He said the gadgets would help improve security in the rail transportation segment in the wake of rising security challenges.
“The Ministry of Transportation today submitted three memoranda to the council which were approved. The first of them was in respect of the provision of equipment for the Nigerian Railway stations across the country phase II.
“These equipment include baggage scanners, walk-through metal detectors, X-ray mail scanners, liquid explosives detectors, and narcotics chemical trace bomb detectors among others. The contract was awarded in the sum of N4.3 billion with a completion period of 12 months.
“The 2nd memorandum was also from the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) to provide a secured e-ticketing solution for the Lagos-Ibadan corridor and the Warri-Itakpe corridor under a design-finance-build-maintain-operate and transfer public-private partnership arrangement for the Nigerian Railway Corporation.
“The Lagos Ibadan corridor was approved for a concession period of 10 years at a sharing ratio of 81.5 percent to NRC and 18.5 percent to the concessionaire. The Warri-Itakpe under the same partnership arrangement, corridor was approved for a concession period of 10 years too, with the same sharing ration like that of Lagos-Ibadan,” he said.
