The Federal Executive Council has given approval for the development of a property of the Nigeria Police located in the Maitama District of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this to State House Correspondents, at the end of Wednesday’s meeting of the council.
He said the project would be executed through a private-public partnership that would facilitate the police force in taking 15 out of the 39 houses while the private sector would provide the funding taking 24 of the houses.
“Council considered and approved a public private partnership arrangement whereby the police property in Maitama will be developed for use by the Senior Officers of the Police. It’s an arrangement between a private company, the Ministry of Police Affairs and the Nigeria Police Force.
“39 apartments will be re-developed and 24 of them would be taken by the private sector that provided the funding while 15 will be used by the police over a period of time. But the beauty of the arrangement is that it is at little or no cost to the federal government because all we have offered is our land and after the expiration of the lease agreement the entire 39 buildings revert to the Nigeria Police Force.”
The Minister of Science and Technology, Adeleke Mamora, who also spoke to Journalists, informed them that the council approved another public-private partnership arrangement on research and development of satellite technology and equipment for the provision of cost-effective satellite broadband service to rural areas in the country.
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