The House of Representatives expressed grave concerns over the inefficiencies in the operations of Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) and resolved to investigate a Deputy Director Accounts on Grade Level 16 who was born on January 8, 1996, but employed December 15, 1992, and promoted Deputy Director on January 1, 2019.
This happened during the ongoing budget defence as lawmakers expressed the concern during the 2020 budget performance and 2021 budget defence on BPP.
It also demanded the utilization of various subheads on N22.666 million spent on welfare packages, N17.912 million on local training, N57.7 million spent on local travel and international travels during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, in 2020 budget among others.
Referring to the Director-General of the BPP, Hon. Ossai, a member of the committee said:
“It means you have been in office for four years now and yet your office has not done its job. I see this as an infraction to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. If that is so, the House should be able to summon the political courage and will and be able to do the needful and an affront on the Constitution and the Appropriation Act.
“Every year, we appropriate money for this purpose and we budget money for a particular purpose and it is misapplied, that is another infraction. I think we should go beyond the issues of questions and answers on the 2020/2021 appropriation and make far-reaching recommendations,” he observed.
