A former Director General of the Bureau of Public Procurement, Obiageli Ezekwesili has faulted the Group Managing Director 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 is a 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.
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“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,” she said.
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