The Vice President, Alhaji Dr Mahamadu Bawumia paid a surprise visit to the Public Procurement Authority on Thursday to familiarise himself with the Authority’s operations.
Dr. Bawumia explained that, the visit was borne out of government’s desire to chart a new course and tackle challenges facing the Authority.
“If you look at corruption in the sector, I say probably 95 per cent plus of it is from procurement, and so we are trying to give the public procurement authority as much as we can to execute its mandate. The Chief Executive has basically made it clear that he wants to chart a new course which is what we want to support,” he explained.
The Vice President said the Authority, under the NPP administration, will ensure due diligence and value for money in every procurement.
“For every procurement, there is going to be due diligence and value for money. This is new and a new team is going to be set up here to do this.We want to bring in a lot of transparency in the procurement process, but we want to bring in technology and so we are moving towards E-procurement.”
“Chief Executive has already said that starting in June, we are going to begin the process, which means that every procurement will have its identification number and you can track it from each stage to the end so it is going to be very transparent…There will not be any surprises.”
The NPP administration has for the first time appointed a Minister of state in charge of public procurement. Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya, and Deputy Majority Leader, Adwoa Sarfo, who’s a professional lawyer with specialization in Procurement Law, is the Minister for that unit.
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What is all this visit about. will that change anything? in any case , what is all the 110 ministers going to do if you have to be visiting places like that? its not about surprise visits, its about change. the dollar is galloping like a horse, you claim in opposition you know it all so sit on your desk, work and fix the depreciating cedi. all this your "bawumiah" noise you were making all over the place about the economy , what has happened to it. don't let us begin to believe that you are an obvious liar. go back to your desk and do your work when we are seeing the result , come with your surprise visits.
The ceremonial vice president has nothing to do. I guess he omly has to roam about. the real work is being done by the Prime minister Osafo Marfo
The earlier visit to Registrar General's Dept. did not yield any result. The visit should bring about change(lateness to work, whatsapping whilst attending to client and incompentece of some staffs at various departments. He should visit Land Title Registry. Ask them what change have they brought to the place. We change for better, easier and shorter times of doing things. The change at Land Title is the worse change I have ever seen. The Registrar is the worst to be in charge of the place. Past once were better as compared.
So what will be the mandate of the minister in charge of procurement? to have oversight responsibilities over the procurement authority? won't that compromise the authority and independence of the authority? the authority should be given autonomy to be effective,else we will merely be recycling corruption and not kicking it out.
HOW MANY MPS WERE THERE IN PARLIAMENT IN 1992
Hope these visits translate to real impact.