The brand new Director Common of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Mr Adebowale Adedokun, has cautioned workers members to desist from rumour-mongering while declaring his administration’s intention to keep up an open-door coverage with workers.
The previous Director of the BPP, Analysis, Strategic Coaching & Acquisition, made this recognized through the handover ceremony from his predecessor and performing Director Common, Olusegun Omotola, held on the BPP workplace in Abuja.
Figuring out rumour-mongering as one of many bureau’s important challenges, Adebowale urged the workers to keep away from rumour-mongers, noting that his administration will function an open-door coverage to each workers member.
“I guarantee you that my administration won’t compromise on the workers’s benefit, high quality and growth. I can guarantee you that I’ll respect you and do what must be achieved to make sure the continual development of the bureau. My imaginative and prescient is to construct a BPP workers that’s exportable and of world commonplace.”
He added that his administration would develop insurance policies to empower ladies, youth, and individuals with disabilities and totally evaluation and comply with up on the small print of his predecessor’s handover notes.
Talking on the handover ceremony, the outgoing Appearing Director Common, Omotola, listed an outdated wage construction, insufficient workplace house, insufficient finances, workers recruitment, workplace furnishings and different work instruments, and the necessity for the digitisation of the BPP for efficient service supply because the bureau’s important challenges.
However the challenges, Omotola achieved important achievements throughout his brief administration from June 21 to November 18, 2024.
The achievements embrace the adoption of an open-door coverage, enabling direct suggestions to workers from the manager (DG), an enchancment within the turnaround time for bureau procurement from two to 3 and not more than a month, a rise within the approval and procurement methodology threshold, and the stoppage of unwarranted visits of contractors to the BPP workplace.
“Contractors are not allowed into the BPP. BPP offers straight with the Ministries, Departments and Companies (MDAs),” mentioned Omotola.
Different achievements of the outgoing administration embrace a proposal to the Nationwide Meeting to evaluation the bureau’s wage construction, which has not been up to date since 2011, and efforts to help an enhanced finances ceiling of the BPP to make sure the Bureau has entry to elevated funds to are likely to and increase its duties inside and round public procurement.
In welcoming his successor, Omotola prayed for God’s knowledge and steerage in directing the BPP’s affairs.
