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| The Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin presneting a souvenir to Special Guest of Honour during the DHQ Procurement Seminar |
Authorities of the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) are set to
improve the military equipment procurement procedures that had hitherto caused
failures and poor accountability in the acquisition of heavy military weapons
and platforms.In a procurement seminar organized by the Defence Headquarters,
yesterday in Abuja, the authorities hope to totally overhaul and realign their
hardware acquisition processes and make them completely transparent in
accordance with the present administration’s policy thrust.
Declaring the seminar open, the Chief of the Defence Staff,
General Gabriel Abayomi Olonisakin said that the AFN will always remain a
representative example of moral correctness in the management of public funds.
He said that the outcome of the seminar would go a long way to serve as a
veritable tool for assessing the hardware needs of the military and their
procurement capacities while harmonizing them with the earlier proposed
guidelines of the ministry of defence which is the supervising ministry of the
armed forces.
Themed, ‘Capability Management of the Armed Forces of
Nigeria through an Integrated Procurement System’, the Chief of Defence Staff
said the seminar would ensure that the operational requirements of the military
would always be assessed with what the end users need.
“The theme derives its focus from global best practices
where urgent operational requirements are matched with needs assessed from end
users”, he said.
To achieve the desired goal, two lecture papers were
presented by credible resource fellows both of who were agreed that if an
organization adopts wrong procurement methods needs assessment would be low,
the capacity of the armed forces would reduce, and an outright failure would
follow sooth.
The Acting Director General, Bureau for Public Procurement,
Engineer Ahmed Abdul delivered the first paper titled, Public procurement act:
effective tool for delivering for less, while a retired senior air force officer,
Air Commodore Babatunde Akanbi delivered
the second paper on salient issues and guidelines in defence equipment
procurement.
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