A former Director General of the
Bureau of Public Procurement and Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili on
Friday faulted the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) Maikanti Baru for not following due process as recommended
by the Public Procurement Act in the award of contracts by the NNPC.
Ezekwesili, who was the lead
discussant at a roundtable to analyse the issues surrounding the October
faceoff between the GMD of the NNPC and the Minister of State for Petroleum,
Ibeh Kachikwu, argues strongly that the NNPC breached the nation’s public
procurement procedures.
Ezekwesili revealed that the NNPC
management and the GMD’s claims that there is no power residing on the board to
approve contracts is false.
“The approving authority of the
process is not determined by the board. That is where the confusion is coming
from.
“There is the process and then
there is the completion of the process and then, the submission of the process
to an approving authority.
“What the NNPC management and the
GMD are saying is that there is no power residing in the board to approve
anything that they have done all they need to do is do there process and take
it to the president. They are wrong,” she said.
Ezekwesili stressed that there is
no provision in the procurement law that says the President or any individual
can approve such contracts.
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They are all so literate that someone has to circumvent the process. It happens only in Nigeria. Yet they claim to fight corruption. God help Nigeria from this misfits in the name of quota system and federal character.
ReplyDeleteWell it is the handiwork of the government you helped to "install" in Nigeria. Your actions pre and post 2015 elections showed clearly where you stand. You even celebrated with VP Osibanjo during his thanksgiving at National Christian Center Abuja
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