FEC Approves N665 Million  for Poultry Farming in Four States

The Federal Executive Council has approved the sum of N665.2 Million variation for contracts for the boosting of poultry farming in Borno, Plateau, Yobe and Zamfara States.

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Farouk revealed this to State House Correspondents on Wednesday, at the end of this week’s meeting of the council chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari.

She said the poultry programme was in support of victims of conflicts in the four States that were affected by conflicts in 2019.

Farouk said the variation was meant to address current changes in prices of poultry equipment, since the scheme was approved two years ago.

“Today, the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development presented a memo to the council on behalf of the National Emergency Management Agency, seeking approval for the revised estimated cost for contracts for the procurement of poultry equipment for Borno, Plateau, Yobe and Zamfara States.

“This memo was earlier approved at FEC meeting of Wednesday 20^th March 2019. That contract was awarded then but due to COVID-19 and the rise in prices, the contract was not executed because the contractors said they could not do so because of the increase in prices so we had to go back to the Bureau for Public Procurement BPP for variation; which we got and now we have come to Council and graciously, we got its approval.   

“The variation approved is in the sum of N324, 716, 836 and N340, 525, 086, totalling N665, 241, 922, representing a 4.87% increase on the original contract sum,” she explained.

Facility Maintenance

Similarly, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva told Journalists that the council approved N2.1 billion for facility maintenance of the Nigeria Content Development headquarters in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

He said: “I Presented two memos to the Council. One for the facility maintenance of the 17 storey Nigerian Content House building in Yenagua for N2.1-billion-naira, which the council graciously approved.

“Another memo was also presented to the council. It was for the operations and maintenance of a 10 megawatts power plant also in Yenagoa. Council also graciously approved the operations and maintenance contract for the sum of N712 million for two years.”

Sylva said the two contracts were approved for an initial period of two years.

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