FG moves to end delays in Road Projects, as Works Minister meets BPP

Stanley Ihedigbo

In a bid to end delays in the implementation of the Renewed Hope agenda on road sector development, the Honourable Minister of Works, Sen. Engr. Nweze Umahi, met with the management of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) to discuss a new paradigm of seamless bureaucracies in public procurement processes.

According to the Special Adviser ( Media) to the Honourable Minister of Works, Hon Barr. Orji Uchenna Orji, the meeting, focused on the need for a collaborative resolve to end unnecessary delays in the procurement processes.

Sen. Umahi emphasized that for the works sector to achieve greater prospects in innovation, efficiency, and economy in the road infrastructure revolution agenda of the present administration, there must be a deliberate effort to remove all bureaucratic constraints to project evaluation by the BPP.

The Director-General, Bureau of Public Procurement, Dr. Adebowale Adedokun, commended the Honourable Minister for the purposeful initiatives of the Federal Ministry of Works under his watch.

He assured Sen. Umahi of enhanced synergies with the Ministry to achieve the noble objectives of the Renewed Hope administration in the works sector.

The meeting was attended by directors of key departments of both the Ministry and the Bureau, including Engr. Bede U. Obioha, Director Highways Bridge and Design, Engr. Musa Saidu, Acting Director Highways Road Design and Engr. Clement Ogbuagu, Director Highways Construction and Rehabilitation Federal Ministry of Works, as well as Nasir M. Bellow, Isaiah G. Yesufu, Janet McDickson, Directors of the Bureau of Public Procurement.