CHECKING WASTAGE IN PUBLIC SPENDING IN PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATION AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLES OF BUREAU OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT BPP KEBBI STATE OFFICE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Nigeria is in dire need of accountability in Public Spending. This is because accountability Public Spending is cost effective to promote social and economic development. Public Spending has the potential to enhance democratic process by promoting fairness, civic responsibility and social – economic development. They add value to a country in terms of its attractiveness as a place to live work and invest.
The term “Public Spending” here refers to the combination of government controlled and commercial private sector services being provided to the general public as clients, and most importantly as a citizen Fawoyi (2007).
In order to fulfill this statutory mandates, government at all level regularly or more appropriately in Nigeria, routinely enters into contract to purchase goods and services to the public. Indeed a large proportion of government activities are carried out through such contracts. It goes without saying that these contracts are the major vehicle of corruption in Nigeria. Thus since the inception of civilian administration in Nigeria there have been persistent demand for the legislative intervention inform of statutory enactments to define basic ground rules for effectiveness and efficiency in public spending with a view to reducing corruption in the process at least to the barest minimum Fawoyi, (2007).
This research work focuses on checking wastage in Public Spending in Public Sector Organizations: An assessment of Roles of Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) Kebbi State Office.
1.0 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The quality of public service provided by public institution for the years has been very poor, sadly the inefficiency which characterized these services has crept into the private sector, little wonder, the average Nigerian citizen is daily with poor customer public service almost all sector of the economy.
However, with the return of Nigeria to civilian rule on the 29th May, 1999, with a lot of enthusiasm in the minds of citizens for better days to come because of the long years of military rule which many believed had caused our dear country a lot of set back economically, politically, socially, culturally and religiously. The high hopes which the public administrators faded away after the first four years, as the nations problems such as unemployment, corruption, ineffective and inefficient public service and soon still persisted.
It was identified that numerous gaps exist in the policy. It was also discovered that many public services were inaccessible of poor quality and indifferent to customer needs. Our public offices have for too long been show cases for inefficiency and dishonesty whilst being impediments to implementation for sound government policies. The Nigerian effort aim at instilling quality public service initiative appeared to be built around a total quality management. Philosophy which consists of a series of quality improvement activities involving employees, members of public and top management in a joint effort to achieve effective public service improvement.
CHECKING WASTAGE IN PUBLIC SPENDING IN PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATION AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLES OF BUREAU OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT BPP KEBBI STATE OFFICE