Association of Public Procurement Practitioners of Nigeria to upscale members’ skills
The Association of Public Procurement Practitioners of Nigeria has concluded plans to upscale the professional competences of her members, share industry information while engaging critical stakeholders including government and her Agencies on the need to engage professional procurement Practitioners with a bid to ensure professional compliance in line with international best practices in public and private Procurement Practice in the country.
The National President of the Association, Emem James Kanico while inaugurating the Central Working Committee of the Association’s 2023 National Conference on the 6th February at their National Secretariat, No. 9 PortHarcourt Crescent off Gimbiya Street, Garki – Abuja said the National Conference is scheduled to hold on the 4th June 2023 in Lagos as approved by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Association.
He revealed that it was on the 4th June 2007 that the administration of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua gave a Presidential assent to the Public Procurement Act which gave the Association the constitutional identity and backing to operate as a Professional body.
He added that the National Executive Committee had resolved that the annual National Conference of the Association will be holding on every 4th June in commemoration of the presidential assent to the Act establishing the Procurement Practice.
Kanico added that the Association has come to stay with renewed commitment to training and retraining of her leaders and members to boast the practice of the profession with a view to contributing to national development.
He disclosed that new members will be inducted into the professional cadre of the Association during the National Conference, calling on all the Procurement Officers in public and private sectors to identify and take advantage of the National Conference to get themselves abreast with contemporary trends in the industry.
The National President of the Association also used the occasion to call on the Federal government, her Agencies, Parastatals and Commissions to consider engaging professional Procurement Practitioners in their Procurement administration in order to ensure quality control mechanism, save cost and guarantee timely delivery of government procurements.
Kanico while inviting them to the event as scheduled, called on the Federal and state governments, Agencies, Institutions, the National Assembly, Bureau of Public Procurement, multinationals, diplomatic community to take advantage of the forthcoming 2023 National Conference of the Association by sponsoring their Procurement Officers to the week long Annual General Conference, Training, Retraining and Induction Ceremony which promises to be impactful.
Meanwhile the Central Working Committee of the Association’s 2023 National Conference is chaired by Nura Sani with Olumuji B. Samuel as Co-Chairman.
Others inaugurated as members of Committee by the National President of the Association, Emem James Kanico includes, Adigwe Emma, Barr. Chucks Osuji, Zainab Mohammed, Umar Abdullahi Isa, Fatima Hamza, Lami Bako while the FCT Chairman of the Association, Makar O. Dominic is to serve as the Committee’s Secretary.
Meanwhile, the Central Working Committee has the following terms and references which includes to coordinate & supervise all activities of the other various sub-committees, to perform any other functions as may be directed by the President or the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Association for the purpose of having a successful conference.
For emphasis, the Association of Public Procurement Practitioners of Nigeria (APPON) is a professional body for Public Procurement Officers in Nigeria duly registered with the law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It is an umbrella body of Public Procurement Practitioners in all tiers of government in the country. The Association’s aim is to advance, project, promote and protect the welfare and interest of its members in the performance of their schedule of duty in line with the scheme of service in the Procurement Cadre in all Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as Procurement Officers in Nigeria.
It could be recalled that the Association was formed on 15th February 2020 and incorporated on the 17th June, 2020 with the Registration Number: 159973. The Draft Bill of the Association had long been submitted to the National Assembly for legislative proceedings. The Association is a truly national procurement body with the aim of setting procurement standard, agenda and training programmes reflecting the national procurement practice which would meet internationally acceptable procurement standard. It was born out of a burden shared by a number of well meaning procurement officers that passed the prescribed examination of Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) training/ conversion programme for a procurement grown and spun professional body. It is commissioned as a Pan-Nigerian and stakeholders’ based approach to the definition of procurement standards, ethics and practices.
