The management of the National Assembly is in the process of awarding contracts worth at least N10billion as part of the efforts to ease the work of the newly inaugurated 109 Senators and 360 members of the House of Representatives.
The contracts, The Nation gathered authoritatively, are in respect of supply of cars, television sets, refrigerators, water dispensers and office equipment such as desk top computers, laptops, printers, scanners, and photo copying machines.
The items to be bought will replace the old ones used and purchased by members of the 8th National Assembly upon the expiration of their tenure.
Cars, including SUVs, for the use of lawmakers top the list of items to be purchased.
Vehicles alone will cost the National Assembly a hefty amount.
The 8th National Assembly spent an estimated N6.6billion to purchase exotic cars for lawmakers.
It is expected that much more will be spent in this current dispensation.
Well-placed sources said contractors are already warming up to have their own piece of the coming largesse.
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The contracts for vehicle supply and insurance cover alone will cost the tax payer about half a billion naira, sources said.
One of the sources said no fewer than 600 televisions sets are also expected to be supplied.
It is also expected that contracts will be awarded in respect of the installation of CCTV cameras in the NASS complex.
A source said past efforts to install the cameras have not succeeded.
“Within the last few years, several contracts have been repeatedly awarded for the supply and installation of CCTV cameras at hundreds of millions of Naira but remain far from being 100% functional as things have been lost without the cameras recording anything to solve such little mysteries,” the source said.