What NASS will do about the procurement process in Nigeria

-Senate President, Bukola Saraki disclosed that the National Assembly would soon come up with an amendment bill on the procurement process.

-The ammendment bill was to ensure strict and transparent implementation of the N6.08trillion 2016 budget.

-Saraki said instead of trading blames on the woes afflicting the country now, what stakeholders need is collective participation for the good of all Nigerians.

The Senate president, Bukola Saraki, has described the 2016 budget as ambitious.

Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Tuesday, February 3 disclosed that the National Assembly would soon come up with an amendment bill on the procurement process.

Saraki stated this while responding to a question on secrecy of the National Assembly budget and corruption leveled against it by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

He said the ammendment bill was to ensure strict and transparent implementation of the N6.08trillion 2016 budget.

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He said instead of trading blames on the woes afflicting the country now, what stakeholders need is collective participation for the good of all Nigerians.

He also said that the details of the 115billion naira National Assembly budget on section by section basis, would be transparently put into the public domain this year.

He said: “We’ve all been here since 1999 up to the recent past when things were not done right, we are all part of it.  I was there , you were there, every other political office holders in different capacities were there as well.

“My own view from the 8th National Assembly is that the time for collective participation for the good of all Nigerians is here with us in line with the change mantra of the present administration . We are all on the same page for things to be done differently.

“I think what we need now from all stakeholders , is more of cooperation, encouragement and participation  as oppose to trying to hold one person responsible for the mistakes of the past that we are all part of .It is clearly not the right thing needed now.

“I appeal to you and all Nigerians that we should work together just as I assure you all that we will do well here in NASS to practically complement the change agenda”.

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However, Saraki also said that all public office holders in Nigeria since 1999 were involved in one way or the other, in the mistakes of the past that led the country to the present political and economic mess.

He however stated that  rather than the falling oil price bench mark, the two critical issues to be monitored and managed for successful implementation of the budget are issues of expected revenues from non oil and independent sources aside that of funding the huge deficit

Naij.com recalls that in a recent letter, Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria said it was wrong for anybody to hold an individual or group of people solely responsible for the mess of the past.

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