Bauchi Meat Company Negotiates N300m Contract With Army

The Bauchi Meat Company is negotiating a N300 million contract with the Nigerian Army for the supply of minced meat.

The Commissioner for Commerce and Industries, Alhaji Yerima Giade, said this in an interview with in Bauchi, on Tuesday.

Giade said that the contract when signed, would enable the company to supply the product to soldiers in the UN peacekeeping operations abroad.

He said that the product would be a substitute to the 600 cartons of dry meat (kilishi) currently being supplied to soldiers in various peacekeeping missions abroad.

Giade explained that last year, the company had supplied dry meat but that authorities of the army preferred minced meat.

He said that negotiations had also been intensified to get the various airlines and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to patronise the product.

Giade said that the company had expanded the supply of its product to Abuja and Lagos to further boost its revenue base.

The Tide gathered that the company which was established in 1964, collapsed 25 years ago, after it was inherited from the defunct Northern Nigeria Government company and was resuscitated by the present administration.