US Procurement Report: NEFGAD Insists BPP’s Defence is Weak and Deceptive

US Procurement Report: NEFGAD Insists BPP’s Defence is Weak and Deceptive

By: Michael Mike

A leading public procurement advocacy in Nigeria, Network for the Actualization of Social Growth and Viable Development

(NEFGAD), has criticized the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) for offering weak and “deceptive” defense to an honest and highly integrous report of the United States of America alleging corruption and lack of transparency in Nigeria’s public procurement.

NEFGAD made this known in a statement through its Acting Head of Office, Barrister Unekwu Blessing-Ojo and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday.

He advised the Bureau to stop deceiving the President by owing up to its leadership deficits, which has eroded staff and stakeholders’ confidence in the operations of the Bureau.

In its 2025 fiscal transparency report, the US Department officials found that 61 of 140 government and entities assessed did not meet the minimum transparency requirement of which Nigeria is one of them. The US report is in tandem with our in-house assessment of public procurement transactions within the last one year under the leadership of Dr Adebowale Adedokun, Unekwu said.

Unekwu further averred that Dr Adebowale Adedokun, the current Director General of the BPP is an overrated theorist who lack the requisite capacity and character to deliver on practical organizational promises and or national developmental goals, particularly the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President.

The group warned president Bola Tinubu to be more circumspect on the issue of public procurement in Nigeria, maintaining that the success and failure of any administration largely depends on its public procurement practices, and expresses serious doubt as to the current leadership ability of the BPP to deliver on the renewed hope agenda of the president as urgently required.

In the last one year, there seems to be more of procurement policy formulations and regulations from the BPP aimed at promoting local content participation, service delivery in social sectors, Civil Societies (CSOs) engagements and a promise of a more efficient resource allocations, all these looks more of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated contents without corresponding impact on the Nigerian people. Most procurement are still shrouded in secrecy, due process largely disregarded, access to procurement information habitually denied, while the BPP staffers who should assist in the delivery strategy are largely demoralized/demotivated, stakeholders engagement ended at an event venue without necessary follow-ups by the Bureau.

NEFGAD advised the Director General to resign if the office is too big for him to manage and allow Mr President to appoint a more competent person to run the affairs of the office more efficiently and effectively.

US Procurement Report: NEFGAD Insists BPP’s Defence is Weak and Deceptive