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Nigeria: Appoint Due Process Board Now, Reps Tell Yar'Adua
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Leadership (Abuja)
8 May 2008
Posted to the web 8 May 2008
Philip Nyam
House of Representatives has called on President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to immediately constitute and inaugurate a national council on public procurement to facilitate the implementation of this year's budget and the Fiscal Responsibility and Public Procurement Act.
It has also directed the Bureau of Public Procurement otherwise known as Due process to translate its manual of operations in Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa and Pidgin English and circulate them to ministries, departments, agencies as well as states and local governments.
These were contained in a communiqué read by the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Due Process, Hon. Bernard Udoh at the end of a three -day retreat organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Public procurement in collaboration with the Bureau of Public Procurement and the World Bank held in Abuja between April 23 and 26, 2008.
According to the chairman, the committee acknowledged the efforts of the president in assenting to the Due process but maintained that unless the government set up a national council to facilitate the implementation of the Act, the intendment of the law may not be achieved.
He said participants at the workshop agreed that there should be a systematic training of procurement and accounting officers by the Bureau of Public Procurement and in line with section 5 (f-i), the BPP and MDAs should urgently create a national procurement database.
Participants at the workshop also resolved that there should be an efficient project management in public procurement from the stage of conception, planning, funding, execution and evaluation of projects in accordance with Part V of the Act.
The workshop also advised that the procuring entities, suppliers and consultants should understand the implications of violation of part xii section of the Act.
Speaking on the decision to have the Public Procurement Act, translated into the three major languages and Pidgin English, Hon. Udoh noted that the essence was to get Nigerians sensitized on what the law is all about. According to him, ignorance often hinders the implementation pf most government policies explaining that if the citizenry is conversant with the document, implementation would be made much easier.
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The three day workshop with the theme, "Establishing a culture of due process in public procurement: An imperative for responsible leadership. Good governance and National prosperity" was organized for House of Representatives' committee chairmen and their deputies as well as members of public procurement committee and stakeholders.
It is sad to note that the majority of the Reps are actually idly sitting on numerous appropriation boards...yet they are calling on the President for the creation of additional boards. The truth of the matter is that "Boards and Committees" will not solve the fiscal rascality and irresponsibility going on in Nigeria. An “about-turn” and a change towards patriotism, diligence and accountability should come from within the soul of Nigerians. This is what the President is preaching. Majority of the Reps themselves are still hungry wolves in sheep's skin roaming about awash in flamboyance and exuberance. They should... [Read Full Text]
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