By Wole Adedeji, Ilorin.
The Senate Committee Chairman on Health, Dr. Ibrahim Oloriegbe has canvassed for a review for the procurement process in the country.
Senator Oloriegbe who was speaking in Ilorin, Kwara State said a review of procurement process would also ensure speedy implementation of the nation’s annual budgets.
He made the call while featuring on the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Kwara state Council programme; “NewsKeg”.
According to him, the procurement process as being currently practiced in Nigeria has become bottlenecks in the implementation of the government budgets.
The National Assembly member who is currently representing Kwara Central Senatorial District however absolved the executive arm of government from being responsible for the frustrations on the Nigerian citizens over the delay in budget implementations .
Senator Oloriegbe also advocated for reduction in the number of government agencies involved in the procurement processes.
He also called on the Nigerian
populace to hold their leaders for accountable and transparent as a of collaboration in the bid to ensure speedy execution of projects.
Speaking on the worsening unemployment situation in the country, Dr Oloriegbe urged the Nigerian youths to think out of the box and seek other forms to get employed pointing out that government alone could not employ everyone.
He called on wealthy individuals to assist in youths empowerment to make them self reliant and be saved from being probed to being lured into bad companies and engagements into vices.
