February 16, 2025
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CSO and the Media charged to track government’s awarded contracts and procurement laws.

By

Abubakar Ibrahim

 

Transparency and accountability in public procurement and government contracts, has been identified as key element that ensures trust between government and the people.

 

This was a submission given by resource persons and facilitators who dwelled on issues around governance, procurement and monitoring of government awarded contracts at a 5 days Bootcamp Training organized by Public and Private Development Center PPDC in collaboration with MacArthur Foundation which was held in Yola.

 

One of the facilitators Fatima Bello identified transparency as openness in what the government is doing and how it awards contracts and the role of Civil Society Organizations CSOs and the Media in following up the awarded contracts for proper execution of the projects in order to build trust between government and the people.

 

Speaking also, the representative of Public and Private Development Center PPDC in Yola, who is also the Gender Mainstreaming officer of the center, Precious Adigwe, said the essence of the training was to improve compliance of public procurement laws and their implementation as a project in Adamawa and Ekiti states.

 

 

A participant from media Hindi Hebrew, said holding government to account is one of the functions of media, saying that as a journalist, the training has given him tools for data analysis and exposure to best practices for public education to create awareness in what the government is doing to the people.

 

Also people with disability, were not count out of the session as Engineer Sani Sabo chairman Joint Association of Persons With Disabilities PWDs, in Adamawa State described the workshop as timely, noting that it captured their needs of all inclusivity in public procurement.

 

Participants at the training were drawn from Ministries Departments and Agencies MDAs in Adamawa, Bureau for Public Procurement, Persons With Disability, Community Organizations CSOs and the mdia

 

 

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