The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring that beneficiary institutions adhere to the public procurement process, aimed at curtailing corruption.
The Executive Secretary of the agency, Arc Sonny Echono, made the disclosure at the opening ceremony of a 3-day capacity-building workshop on the public procurement process for TETFund beneficiary institutions organised by TETFund in collaboration with the Public Procurement Bureau held in Kano.
He said the training organised in kano was for the beneficiary institutions in the North-west and northeastern parts of the country.
Echono explained that the objective of the capacity-building training was to equip the beneficiary tertiary institutions with procurement processes geared toward addressing corrupt practices in all the TETFund projects nationwide.
He maintained that the three-day training would serve as a refresher training for desk officers of TETFund in the 246 enlisted beneficiary tertiary institutions across the country.
In his remarks, the Director General of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Alhaji Mamman Ahmadu said the capacity-building workshop was timely and geared toward attaining the provision of the Public Procurement Act.
“We are here today to build the capacity of accounting officers ,principal officers, public officers, and other key players in the procurement value chain,” he said.
