The Lagos Government Want To Buy Two New Helicopters

PM News has learnt, however, that the fact of the purchase will depend on the ability of the state authorities to meet the re-ordered budget approved by the House of Assembly this September.
One of the recommendations of the the ad-hoc committee set-up to prepare the 2015 budget re-order was that the sum of N3.8 billion be approved for capital expenditure to meet the security and emergency needs of the state.

“The additional sum of N670,418,193 and N3,819,248,855 be approved respectively as recurrent and capital expenditure for security and emergency intervention fund (including acquisition of rescue helicopters).”

Rotimi Olowo, the committee chairman, lamented that the previously purchased helicopters did not meet the safety requirements. The official stressed the importance of having good equipment for rescue and evacuation operations and recalled the accident involving Bristow helicopter crash in Lagos. He insisted that the rescue process could have been facilitated, had the government the required equipment.
The House further approved additional sums as special expenditure.

The referred to tragic Bristow crash occurred on August 12 when a helicopter flying from Port-Harcourt fell into the Oworosoki end of the Lagos lagoon.

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