The Federal Executive Council, FEC has approved the sum of nine hundred and seventy point two million naira for the provision of residential accommodation for the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS.
The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed announced this while briefing State House correspondents after the meeting presided over by President Buhari.
Ahmed said that the accommodation was important because the Service, being a para-military organisation, is trying to ensure that its members of staff were kept in barracks.
She said that the Service, in its desire to upgrade its services to international best practice in information and communication, also got an approval to procure modern communication gadgets. She listed some of the gadgets as HF radios, BHF radios, walkie takies, cable towers and accessories.
The Minister said that the gadgets were necessary for the Nigeria Customs to enhance its end to end encryption of messages delivery to avoid tapping by unscrupulous elements, smugglers and their cohorts.
