The Nigeria Senate has okay the sum of N4.87bn to the National Intelligence Agency for the purpose of Tracking and Monitoring Calls, including Messages Made By Nigerians.
The amount is part of the N895.8bn supplementary budget submitted by the President Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), last month and approved by both chambers of the federal parliament last week after increasing it by about N87bn.
Details of the supplementary budget obtained by Punch revealed that the NIA would spend N2,938,650,000 on the Thuraya interception solution, while the WhatsApp interception solution would gulp N1, 931,700,000.
Apart from this, the NIA got additional N129m to enable its personnel embark on foreign training. The Defence Intelligence Agency, on its part, got a capital vote of N16.8bn to provide infrastructure, cyber intelligence centre/laboratory, independent lawful intercept platform (voice and advanced data monitoring) and tactical mobile geological platform.
Out of the N33.6bn approved for the Federal Ministry of Police Affairs as recurrent expenditure, the sum of N200m has been set aside to fumigate 19 police training institutes across the country.
The sum of N4.1bn was set aside for the feeding of trainees, while their allowances and salaries would gulp N910m. Teaching allowances for training and support staff was put at N257m, while monitoring and evaluation of training would gulp N582m.
The Nigeria Police Force will also spend N2.2bn on other logistics and consumables. In its capital component, the Federal Ministry of Police Affairs will spend N8.5bn to procure ballistic helmets, bulletproof vests and utility vehicles.
The Police Affairs ministry also got N22.5bn vote to procure drones, ammunition, discreet intelligence equipment and other requirements. The Defence Headquarters got N3.7bn to take care of additional 2,700 troops and execute the Cimic Quick Impact project, among others.
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