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Friday, 9 October 2015

House of Rep members to investigate 2010 $470m CCTV contract

Following the recent bombing in Abuja and others parts of the country, the House of Representatives members yesterday instituted an adhoc committee to investigate the 2010 $470 million Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) contracts awarded for Lagos and Abuja in 2010 by the last administration.

A Lawmaker representing Ijebu North/Ijebu East/Ogun Waterside Federal Constituency at the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Adekoya Adesegun Abdel-Majid brought the motion for the investigation of the contract yesterday October 8th.



Hon. Adekoya said it was important that government takes seriously the need for proper surveillance of major cities, state capitals and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in face of the current security challenges facing the nation.
“That these criminal activities have led to loss of many innocent lives, displacement of thousands of people, destruction of properties worth millions of Naira, traumatization of many and destabilization of economic activities with the attendant damage to the image of the country”.
He called for an immediate investigation into the contract awarded to ZTE Corporation as far back as 2010 at a cost of $470million. In a unanimous vote, the House members approved the call for an investigation into the contract and immediately setup an Ad-hoc committee to investigate the circumstances of the award of the previous installation contract directing the committee to report back to the House within four weeks for legislative action.

27 comments:

  1. Yeah that's d spirit. Let d investigation begins

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    1. Sand don pour for some people garri like that o.

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  2. Congratulations on leaving blogspot . you are such a smart worker and inspiration to young girls. Faithful reader.

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  3. I hope d findings of dis investigations wil b made public and worthwhile...

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  4. I have been waiting for this day to come. #CCTVSCAM

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  5. They suddenly realized how important it was because of what happened last week abi? Before now it wasn't a big deal. They are all a bunch of incompetent old men.











    #TeamBlessed#

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  6. They suddenly realized how important it was because of what happened last week abi? Before now it wasn't a big deal. They are all a bunch of incompetent old men.











    #TeamBlessed#

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  7. Finally! This was long overdue.

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  8. Better!
    Hope It will yield something good

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  9. Its a welcome development. This scam is another gift from the last administration.



    ~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA

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  10. For once,they'd have something reasonable to deliberate on.
    Nice one hon adekoya.

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  11. Seems do-able. It's not like they can't come up with the money. After all more than that was available for Diezeani to loot. Bike, let them approve it

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  12. Why stops the government from starting this fight on corruption from 1999.










    Busy Fingers.

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  13. And the more you find out the obscene amount of money that fool let go missing, the more I feel less empathy for him!! I mean, this is a bloody disgrace man!! 13 billion pounds, 470 million dollars, under on man's watch and these are just the tip of the iceberg!!!

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  14. No be naija we dey again abi na abroad.... they will chew the investigation, swallow d bribery and digest d rest at night. May God fight for us




    D KING WAS HERE√√√√√√


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  15. YES OOH...TOMJERRYSWIT

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  16. Nice move


    Moye says so via BB Passport courtesy LIB....

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  17. A sensible senate would have monitored how the installation of cctv in 2010 had helped catch and convict criminals and how well crime has been cut down within the first year and then if the numbers make sense they can then deploy to other suburbs.

    That 470m is in dollars and is enough to install cctv across the entire ecowas.

    What are they wasting time probing. It's plain to see that these cctvs ain't working and the whole contract was a scam.

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  18. Where the lite dey. Some major streets don't av street lites

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