Home » Lives, Properties Now Safer As FG Approved N403 Million For Fire Fighters.

Lives, Properties Now Safer As FG Approved N403 Million For Fire Fighters.

by Oba Samuel

Lives Property Now Safer As FG Approved N403 Million For Fire Fighters

Fire has wreck alot of lives and businesses over the years in Nigeria as many are still counting their losses till date. At every fire disaster,the complaints of Fire fighters has always been lack of equipments to work with. This is becoming a thing of the past as the federal Government has approved N403 million for Federal Fire Service.

As reported by dailytrust,the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved N403 million for the purchase of 15 water-carrying tankers for the Federal Fire Service.

The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazzau, later told State House correspondents that the tankers had the capacity to be used as fire fighting trucks.

He explained that the procurement of the tankers was aimed at revamping the Service which, he said, had lacked equipment for a very long time.

The minister noted that the approval was in line with the 2016 budgetary provisions.

He said a lot of fire fighting equipment had already been procured from the N5.5 billion voted for such purpose in 2016.

 

Follow us on twitter @dailyfamilyng

See also  FG Mandates National Identification Number for all Citizens (See Details)

Related Articles

Leave a Comment