The President of the Senate, Sen. Ahmad Lawan on Monday said the nation’s public procurement procedures was short of world best practices, saying the Act will receive holistic overhaul. According to Lawan, Nigerians always stand disadvantaged with such anomalies in the procurement process.He said there was the need to review the Public Procurement Act. “The Public Procurement in Nigeria as far as I can see is not the best in the world.“The Public Procurement must be reviewed and amended, we must see how we can make it more practical and holistic. “Our Public Procurement committee will be a very strong committee this time around.“The cost of projects in Nigeria is mostly the highest in the world. ” We cannot continue like this,not in the face of very scarce resources, so, we are going to insist that the Public procurement particularly is considered better than before.

Source: The Guardian July 01, 2019 14:15 UTC