The minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun, has been removed from the post of chairman of the national council on public procurement by the House of Representatives.
Her removal from the council was done following the alterations passed by the House on a bill for an Act to amend the Public Procurement Act, 2007 as passed by the House, PM News reports.
A major amendment of the bill was the removal of minister of finance as chairman of the national council on public procurement.
The minister will now be replaced with a person to be appointed by the president. Similarly, the new law provides for the establishment of Parastatal Tenders Board in each Federal ministry, extra-ministerial department and all agencies of government, and includes the National Defense and National Security Agencies which hitherto were excluded from the procurement processes.
In an effort to increase public access to procurement activities, the House bill introduced a new section 5 (f) which mandates the Bureau to “publish the details of all contracts in the procurement journal, any other national newspapers and in their official website; while subsection (h) states that the Bureau shall maintain a national database of the particulars, classification, and categorisation of federal contractors, suppliers, consultants and service providers”.
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