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Reps Probe BPP Director Born In 1996 Yet Employed In 1992


Lantewa Fatsuma Lawal, the deputy director of accounts at the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), is currently being investigated by the house of representatives.

According to reports, Lawal, who is from Bade local government area of Yobe state, and on grade level 16, was born in 1996 but gained employment in 1992. 

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The house committee on public procurement discovered the alleged irregularity when BPP officials appeared before it to defend the agency’s 2021 budget on Thursday, November 12. 

Thereafter, the lawmakers set up a sub-committee to probe the alleged anomaly and to get more facts on the matter.

Expressing displeasure, the deputy chairman of the committee, Kingsley Oju said the performance of the BPP is less than five percent. 

“It baffles this committee that since the appointment of the DG, it is taking about four years to submit report from 32 agencies out of over 850 agencies for us to know whether they are complying with the law. 

“We are shocked as a committee on public procurement that we don’t even have materials to work. We are doing budget defence, but this committee is vested with the responsibility to ascertain the usage of previous funds.
“I agree with you that audit is going on, but if your performance is less than five percent, I don’t think we are ready to do the job. 

“I, therefore, move a motion that the committee should mandate the bureau to submit all procurement audit report of 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 before the end of this year,” Oju said.


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