EFFICIENT PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PRACTICE AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: WHAT NIGERIA SHOULD DO
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2015
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Department of Political Science, Ibrahim Babangida University, Lapai Nigeria
Abstract
The role of effective and efficient public procurement system and practice as an inevitable
tool for achieving overall growth and development in any political system isbacked by huge
empirical evidences in developed countries of the World. Indeed, unlike Nigeria and most
other developing countries of Africa, where the subject of public procurement is yet to
receive adequate attention by policy makers, academic researchers, professional bodies,
civil societies as well as the general public, countries that have evolved robust public
procurement system enjoy enviable development progress in all facets of life- socio
culturally, economically, politically, infrastructural wise, among others. Although many
developing countries including Nigeria have severally undertaken reforms to reposition their
public procurement systems inorder to attain the desired development heights, most ofthem
have not recorded meaningful progress due to corruption and high level deficiencies and
inadequacies intheir public procurement policies and practices. To be precise, Nigeria isyet
to recognize public procurement as an administrative activity that requires serious attention
and contributions by every segment or section of the population, hence, the country's
appalling development state. This paper, therefore, primarily emphasizes the imperatives of
a virile public procurement system and practice as an instrument for achieving rapid national
development in any country. In view of this, it suggests what Nigeria should do in order to
reposition and strengthen her public procurement practice for maximum performance and
rapid attainment of her national growth and development
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Efficiency, Effectiveness, National Development, Public Procurement