Use public procurement system for transparency and accountability – BPP Tells State Governments

Director-General, Bureau of Public Procurement, Mr. Emeka Eze
Director-General, Bureau of Public Procurement, Mr. Emeka Eze

The country’s Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) has advised state governors to set up a public procurement system as a way of ensuring further transparency and accountability in government.

Director-General of the bureau, Mr Emeka Ezeh, made this call while speaking at a high level interactive session with a delegation of the Lagos State public procurement agency at the state house office in Abuja.

According to Mr Ezeh, due process is the cardinal focus in the implementation of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda, and it is also a common mantra in the international economics system and development.

He then praised Lagos State for their procurement reform initiative, adding, however, that the nation would benefit as a whole if more states joined Lagos, even as few other states that have already introduced the reform. The BPP boss also emphasised the fact that there was no alternative to ensuring accountability, transparency and value for money in the public expenditure and contractive process if national development is to be guaranteed.