BPP tasks regional commissions’ boards on due process

The Director-General of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Dr Adebowale Adedokun, has tasked chairmen and members of the recently inaugurated determination improvement commissions to uphold owed process successful procurement.

Adedokun gave the complaint successful a connection signed by his Head of Public Relations, Zira Nagga,  successful Abuja connected Friday.

According to the statement, helium spoke during a retreat organised by the Ministry of Regional Development for chairmen and members of the boards of the South-South, South-west, and North-Central Development Commissions.

He said the deficiency of owed process had undermined Nigeria’s improvement objectives for years, emphasising that President Bola Tinubu’s medication had mandated the BPP to guarantee procurement was nary longer transactional.

The BPP brag urged the boards to familiarise themselves with the Public Procurement Act (PPA) 2007 and different extant regulations, informing that some chairmen and members were liable for procurement decisions.

Citing Section 20 of the Act, Adedokun said that accounting officers overseeing procurement were besides legally liable for immoderate breaches, whether committed straight oregon by subordinates.

The BPP brag reminded the boards that existent improvement went beyond providing token items similar tricycles and sewing machines.

According to him, it entailed delivering transformative projects specified arsenic interconnected obstruction systems, durable roads, iconic hospitals and acquisition institutions.

Adedokun said his bureau would deploy physics monitoring solutions to way projects crossed the regions from Abuja, portion reiterating that procurement indispensable travel anterior budgetary appropriation and unfastened competitory bidding.

He said the guiding principles of procurement were transparency, promotion of competition, efficiency, worth for money, and fittingness for purpose, informing that valuation criteria indispensable ne'er beryllium altered.

Adedokun besides urged the caller boards to presumption the translation of their regions arsenic a load they indispensable bear, physique legacies for the future, and marque the President arrogant of their appointments.

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