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Senate, House of Rep To Spend N40B To Buy 465 Armored Toyota Land Cruiser SUVs For Members
Senate, House of Representatives to spend N40B to buy 465 armored Toyota Land Cruiser SUVs for its members.
While Senators will get 107 units of 2023 Toyota Land Cruiser 300 SUVs, 358 units of 2023 Toyota Prados will go to Reps.
Newly constituted Senate Committee on Services will reportedly purchase, deliver the armored vehicles to the lawmakers.
The Senate and House of Representatives are reportedly set to spend over N40 billion to purchase bulletproof official vehicles for lawmakers in the Red and Green Chambers of the National Assembly.
According to investigations by Saturday Sun, the Senate Committee on Services, saddled with the responsibility of purchasing vehicles for lawmakers, will handle the negotiations and take delivery of them.
While 107 units of 2023 Toyota Land Cruiser 300 SUVs is expected to be delivered to members of the Senate, 358 units of 2023 Toyota Prado SUVs would be procured for members of the House of Representatives.
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The planned purchase is different from the official vehicles that will be purchased for the four presiding officers of the National Assembly, which includes the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio.
The Senate President, Akpabio, had, during the week, constituted the Committee on Senate Services, headed by Kogi West senator, Sunday Steve Karimi.
The Senate Committee on Services is also expected to handle the purchase of two bulletproof official vehicles (likely Mercedes-Benz S-Class ultra-luxury sedan) for Senator Akpabio and his deputy, Barau Jibrin.
A car dealer, who spoke with Saturday Sun, put the amount needed to purchase a bulletproof vehicle produced in 2023 at over N300 million, adding that the price may go up if the current naira regime doesn’t improve.
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