Avert wrongful appointment of DG of BPP – contractors tell Tinubu

<p>The Contractors Association of Nigeria has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to stop an attempt to tarnish the image of his government with a dubious planned appointment of a misfit Director General for the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP).</p>, <p>The association noted that in Nigeria, the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) is very key to the survival of governance as every ministry and agency of government has to pass through BPP for due process of their procurements and contracts.</p>, <p>The moment the BPP is subdued, all other due processes in the country are gone. And for it not to be subdued, that is why we are calling on President Bola Tinubu not to allow the plot to bypass the laid down civil service process of succession in the public sector, as being planned in cohort with a few top government officials in the Presidential Villa, to succeed.</p>, <p>In a statement signed by the Chairman of the Contractors Association of Nigeria in Abuja, Yusuf Abubakar said the BPP has always been headed by an engineer who is vast in contract and procurement rudiments. Little surprise that a clique who claimed to have the backing of the Presidency is projecting someone who is not an engineer but a graduate of Business Administration to head BPP as Director General.</p>, <p>Not only that, “we had it on authority that someone being projected to the office of the Chief of Staff to the President, Rt. Hon Femi Gbajabiamila is a Grade Level 10 Officer. And we learnt that this week, he may be announced as Director General. This is an absurdity in the Civil Service in Nigeria.</p>, <p>” The person being projected was allegedly demoted from Grade Level 12 to 10 after he was found guilty of misconduct and involvement in fraudulent activities.</p>, <p>“He was transferred by the former DG, Engineer Eze to Owerri after being demoted to Grade Level 10. But now he has found his way back to the head office in Abuja and he is being packaged and being sold to some influential people in the Presidential Villa, particularly, the offi