Clement Agba, minister of state for budget and national planning, announced on Wednesday that the Federal Government has started renovating the Nigerian Customs Service’s headquarters and has also purchased certain specialized operations vehicles for the Service.
The cost clearances were valued by the Minister at more than N18.544 billion.
Agba siad said that the first document the FEC considered related to expanding the seating capacity by adding more seats to the auditorium at the customs headquarters.
This he said was to allow the facility to accommodate larger events, seminars and meetings.
He listed the items to be procured and installed as audiovisual system, conference hall, finishing, ground, provision and installation of acoustic panelling, doors for the auditorium, partitionings and doors.
Agba went further to explain that the other two memos had to do with provision of operational vehicles for customs.
He said one was for 177 vehicles; including Toyota Coaster, Toyota Hiace (mid-roof), Toyota Land Cruiser Buffalo, at a total cost of N9,378,829,942.75, for this set of 177 vehicles.
