Determined to ensure that staff members keep to the rules of engagement, the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure has invited both the Bureau of Public Procurement and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to train and build the capacity of the agency’s workers.
In a statement on Sunday, NASENI said that the exercise was meant to ensure that the agency’s staff followed due process and worked in line with extant regulations in carrying out financial obligations and procurement, especially with its new funding status and return under the direct supervision of the President.
The statement also said that the two-day training, which had been billed to take place in Niger State, would involve the agency’s managing directors/chief executives from 10 research and development institutes and top management staff whose duties directly related to procurement and financial operations.
According to the statement, the Executive Vice Chairman of NASENI, Prof. Mohammed Sani Haruna, said the training was to ensure that extra care would be taken in carrying out procurement activities in the agency and also to update concerned officers on the need to follow procedures on procurement laws to get value for the money spent on any given project by the Federal Government.
“With our new status of being supervised by the President of the country directly, we know that extra care is needed. We are taking this caution, most especially because before now, we were operating without funds and now that funds have been given to us, there is a need to cross-check again which new measures are needed for effective service delivery.”
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