Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha Receives APPON Delegates | READ DETAILS
Nancy Okafor
Mar 17, 2022
Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha Receives APPON Delegates | READ DETAILS
The Chairman of the Committee on Procurement, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha received delegates from the Association of Procurement Practitioners of Nigeria (APPON) in his office.
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Note that Senator Ahmad Lawan had just appointed the former Deputy Minority Leader, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, as the Chairman of the Committee on Procurement.
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Bwacha's appointment was announced on the floor at the Senate plenary. Bwacha as the Deputy Senate Minority Leader and as a principal officer, was the Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Works.
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Entrenched by this appointment, APPON delegates visited him in his office at National Assembly
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The National President of APPON, Mr Emem Kanico congratulated him on his new appointment as the Procurement Committee Chairman and also thanked him for the good works he has been doing.
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Emem, pointed out that procurement in Nigeria has been bastardized because procurement in so many agencies of government and parastatals has been handled by mostly untrained public office holders who has no business in procurement. This, Emem noted has affected these agencies.
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Therefore, the need to Establish the Procurement Practitioners Council of Nigeria has sufficed.
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The Council shall be a Corporate Body -
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(a) with perpetual succession and a common seal͝
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(b) which may sue or be sued in its corporate name͝ and
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(c) which may acquire, hold, purchase, mortgage and deal howsoever with property, movable or immovable, real or personal.
The National President of APPON also used the opportunity to present a document containing a Bill for an Act for the establishment of the Procurement Practitioners' Council of Nigeria, for the Registration of Procurement Practitioners, the Regulation of the Conduct of the Members, the Provision of a Displinary Body for the disciplining of it's members, and for related matter.
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Senator Bwacha promised to take up their request to the Senate while APPON pledged their undivided support to newly appointed Committee Chairman on Procurement.
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