CSOs Engage Police, EFCC, Others In Anti-corruption War

On his part, the director general of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms Mr Dasuki Arabi, said part of the federal government’s effort to close the leakages and anomalies in the procurement process before what subsisted before the year 2000, was the review of the procurement Act, through the support of the World Bank to ensure the enthronement of efficiency, accountability, integrity and transparency in government procurement and financial management systems.

Arabi said “It is pertinent to state that the Procurement Act was greatly inspired by the country’s Procurement Assessment Report, conducted by both international and national consultants, where major recommendations that highlighted the weaknesses of the then-existing procurement system identified amongst others.”

According to him, lack of modern legislation to provide oversight on the guidance and monitoring of purchasing entities, inadequacies in the 1958 Finance , the need to revise the financial regulation, streamline Tender Boards and functional authority to award contracts, need to rebuild the procurement and financial capacity in the public sector.

He said governments over the years have not rested on their oars to ensure transparency and openness in the public financial system by evolving amendments in the procurement Act and introducing other policies to tighten the financial system against undue leakages and corrupt practices. Mindful of the report of infractions within the procurement processes, the government adopted the Freedom of Information Act 2011, which provides citizens the right to interrogate public spending. Similarly, the objects of the open government partnership which Nigeria ratified in 2017 seek to support the ideals of accountability, transparency and openness towards good governance.

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