The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a total sum of N3, 233,000,600 for the award of a contract for the supply and installation of customized exclusive and narcotic detection screening systems for five International Airports across Nigeria.
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, disclosed this on Monday after the fourth cabinet meeting presided over by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said the detection screening systems would be built with a drive view mechanism in Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, and two others in Enugu and Port Harcourt.
Keyamo said the council saw the need for the equipment to bring relief to Nigerians of past experiences.
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“You see various security agencies lined up, NDLEA, they say, open your bag, customs, open your bag, EFCC, open your bag, they will deepen their hands in your bags, So, we thought we should do something like you have TSA in America where you have detection machines, when they pass through, it detects explosives.”
On the benefits of this agreement, he said the country’s routes to South America were not many and as such it would serve as a transit route for Nigerians traveling across the region.
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, said FEC also approved Nigeria’s draft Human Rights reports for further transmission to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
He stated that the approval was for the fourth cycle of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review in fulfillment of the practice of reporting human rights records.
On the reports, the minister said the country dismissed the insinuation that Nigeria employed children in the Armed Forces and discriminated against women because of information that some areas denied them the right to inherit fathers’ property.
