Education Ministry Warns against Abuse of Public Procure Act

Federal Ministry of Education has said Chief Executives or Director-Generals heading government departments and agencies would henceforth be sanctioned over abuse of the Public Procurement Act. Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Dr Folashade Yemi-Esan, disclosed at a forum organised for Chief Executives of agencies, chairmen, secretaries of tender boards and other relevant stakeholders in the administration of procurement. The permanent secretary stressed that the sanction has become imperative given the high cases of abuse of the Public Procurement Act by public officers. She said: “the Procurement Act is what we are talking about, and in that act, the responsibility lies solely on the shoulders of the Chief Executive. In that act, it stipulates what the sanctions are. “One sanction is that the liability of what you do in office lies with you even after you have left service. Even if the chief executive is in place for 4 or 5 years and leave service, he or she will be called back to answer what he did in office.”