A non-governmental organisation (NGO) has sued the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) over alleged failure to properly monitor and supervise contracts awarded by some Ministries Department and Agencies (MDAs) during the immediate-past administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The organisation, Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development, said the contracts were awarded between 2020 and 2023.
Without naming any particular contract, the group said the agency breached the procurement law, undermining transparency and competitiveness in the award of contracts between January 2020 and March 2023.
The group’s suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1002/2023 was filed on 21 July, with BPP sued as the sole defendant.
The plaintiff, through its lawyer, Timilehin Odunwo, accused BPP of indiscriminate issuance of a certificate of no objection to contractors in several federal MDAs within the period under review.
