Abuja — The Senate has resolved to carry out a comprehensive investigation on what it called monumental corruption in the Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP). To this end, it has mandated its Committee on Public Procurement to investigate the allegation and report back to it in five weeks. The bill passed the second reading and was referred to the Senate Committee on Communication for further legislative processing. Aliyu Magatakadda Wamakko (APC, Sokoto North), who sponsored the bill, said none of his colleagues can claim ignorance of the long-drawn-out anguish of retirees from the civil service, Nigeria Police, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS), universities and parastatals, among other federal agencies. He, therefore, urged the upper legislative chamber to use its legislative powers to save the retirees from their protracted sufferings.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 11, 2017 04:41 UTC