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Login: Password: Forum | Make a Journal Entry | View Journal Entries | Submit An Article | Make as StartPage Homepage Register Forgot password News Business Politics Sport City Diary Features Special Report Behind The News Art & Review Editorial Comment Letters Right Of Reply e-Business Law & Judiciary REAL ESTATE Education Development THISDAY Extra THISDAY Saturday THISDAY Sunday ARCHIVE     LINKS City Guides Hotels Business Exhibition Business Services Nigerian.TV Capital Markets Shops Domains WEB HOSTING Family Trees E-Africa.info E-Nigeria.net FlightsSearch.net MailingBox.net Payments   ThisDay question Is President Olusegun Obasanjo's proposed National Dialogue the way forward for Nigeria? Yes No Indifferent View results Due Process Unit Clears N13bn Projects in November From Cletus Akwaya in Abuja, 12.13.2004 Due Process Unit in the Presidency has cleared capital projects worth N13 billion as at end of November. The projects were part of the N18 billion projects  forwarded to the office for review as at October ending. The Unit headed by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Price Intelli-gence and Budget Monitoring, Mrs. Obi Ezekwesili, is charged with the responsibility to vet contract processes by federal ministries and agencies before  approval by  the Federal Executive Council. It has worked to ensure that government gets the best value for money and that contracts are awarded under transparent and competitive processes. Statistics on impending contracts under review in the Unit obtained exclusively by THISDAY showed that 320 projects worth N164.8 billion   representing 52 per cent of the capital budget in the 2004 fiscal year had cash baking. In the budget, N349.80 billion was voted for capital projects out of the N1.16 trillion total estimates. The statistics showed that out of the 457 reviewed, 298 have been  only certificated, 79 not certified while 78 others were awaiting right of reply. Ezekwesili, who spoke with THISDAY, said her Unit was working to ensure that projects brought forward for review were cleared within seven days. Ezekwesili blamed some ministries and agencies for deliberately delaying processing of contracts with the intent to pressure her Unit and by pass the due process mechanism. She  asked why heads of ministries did not commence advertisement of bids when the budget was approved in April only to complain in December of inadequate time to follow due process in the award of contracts. "You are required to advertise a project, if you did not advertise a project, six months into the passage of the budget in April, it means that you've already lost 6 months.   “You can't regain it. They have to still do the advertisement, get their pre-qualification done, do their recommendation of who the winners should be before they then send to us," she stated.       REMAIN INFORMED WE SEND IT TO YOUR MAIL THISDAY NEWSLETTER Name E-Mail   Who We Are | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000-2004 Leaders & Company Limited This Site Created by White Pages Limited

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