HEDA Accuses President Buhari, Ministers, Others Of Illegally Interfering In Contract Approval, Public Procurement
The Human and Environmental Constructing Agenda (HEDA Helpful resource Centre), an anti-corruption organisation, has accused the Federal Executive Council of unlawful interference in public procurement and contract approval.
HEDA made this identified in a two-page letter written to President Muhammadu Buhari and signed by its Chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju.
It maintained that attributable to the non-constitution of the Council, the Federal Executive Council headed by the President has unconstitutionally usurped the responsibilities and responsibilities of the Council.
The organisation asserted that the importance of the constitution of the National Council on Public Procurement can’t be relegated because the characteristic of the Council includes recommending the Director-Traditional of the Bureau to President Muhammadu for an appointment.
HEDA entreated President Buhari to at as soon as advise the National Council on Public Procurement in compliance with the Public Procurement Act as a measure to forestall the unlawful interference of the Federal Executive Council in public procurement and contract approval.
“The Public Procurement Act 2007 used to be enacted to primarily curb procurement frauds in authorities, lower to the barest minimum, politicians’ involvements in contracts award and procurement, and to procure determined accountability in the procurement job,” it said.
HEDA extra explained that it is famous to strictly adhere to the provisions of the Act, noting that the importance of the Constitution of the National Council on Public Procurement can’t be relegated.
Fragment of the letter reads, “Your Excellency, Fragment 1 of the Act establishes the National Council on Public Procurement and Fragment 1(4) affords you the vitality to nominate the Chairman and contributors of the Council.
“It is miles our firm belief that your Excellency can lawful the anomaly and affords life now no longer to most attention-grabbing to the Public Procurement Act but furthermore procure determined politicians are now no longer fascinated by the procurement processes which used to be one among the well-known concerns of World Bank in its Nation Procurement Overview Record (CPAR), main to the passage of PPA.”
The organisation, attributable to this truth, entreated the President to act instant in constituting the National Council on Public Procurement in compliance with PPA.
It said failure to search total compliance or indication of same with their demands within 14 days, HEDA will be forced to design the court docket to mandate compliance.
In the same vogue, HEDA in a separate letter furthermore identified as on the Chairman, Senate Committee on Public Procurement, Senator Isa Shuaibu Lau, to use his factual place of work to procure determined beefy compliance with Fragment 17 of the PPA which affords for approving authorities for contracts award and furthermore the Parastatals Tenders Board (PTB) and Ministerial Tenders Board (MTB).
“We, attributable to this truth, call on Mr. Chairman to imply and procure determined beefy compliance with the PPA. It is miles powerful that pushing this compliance at present of our democracy will encourage in restoring the of us’s believe in public service and public procurement,” he said.
