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National Assembly Bubble as Contractors Set For Multi -Billion Contracts


The stage is set for the award of multi-billion naira contracts in the National Assembly where various office equipment and other items for Federal Legislators are set to be delivered.
Sources close to the newspaperman disclosed that the Service Committees of both senate and House of Representatives have finalised plans for all the items to be delivered before September 24; the source suggest that while the cars are to be  delivered in batches at a secret location, the office equipment would be delivered at the stores. The previous equipment’s, it would be recalled, were carted away by the old legislators including computers, printers, television sets, refrigerators and photocopying machines at a heavily discounted price—based, according to them, on depreciation. This is excluding office furniture and furnishings.

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