MONROVIA – Liberia’s Public Procurement and Concession Commission (PPCC) has cautioned procuring and concession granted entities to adhere to the rules and regulations to ensure national development.
In an exclusive interview at
the Commission’s head office on Capitol Hill, the Executive Director of the
PPCC Atty. Jargbe Roseline Nagbe Kowo called on government to ensure and make
it mandatory that all heads of entities follow all the procedures of the Public
Procurement and Concession Act (PPCA).
“As has been expressed by the
President, and I believe that is a very good political will, we should be able
to follow that mandate.
According to Atty. Kowo, the
Pro-Poor Agenda for Development for Prosperity (PADP) has pillar four that has
to do with transparency in eliminating corruption, which she said is a major
part that the PPCC has to play in.
She added that the Commission
is doing everything to work with stakeholders, which are concession granted
entities to follow the rules and procedures.
The PPCC Executive Director
mentioned that if the entity has that level of compliance to the PPCA, the Commission
will move in direction promoting transparency and good governance.
“There have been lot of
progress, and we have a continuous collaboration with our stakeholders leading
to trainings and at the same time engaging everyone to come on board, so that
we can do what is requires for national development” she noted.
MD Kowo further disclosed that
in November 2019, the PPCC launched a very informative program in adherence to
the law of the commission.
Still at the program, she said
the PPCC will inspect and carryout monitoring of all entities in line with the
PPCA. Atty. Kowo asserted that the campaign entails rotational visitation to
procuring and concession entities to ensure procurement planning properly and
follow the rules and regulations.
Amid the GOL budgetary
challenges, she noted that the Commission is engaging donor partners to help
the entities with some of the projects and programs, adding “We have
collaboration with the GoL, African Development Bank, and the World Bank to
carry out the E-Procurement.
The E-Procurement according to
MD Kowo, is a transition from manual to digital, where entities will carry out
procurement processes with efficiency and open competition.
In conclusion the PPCC boss
pledged to partner with the media in order to understand the work of the entity
so as to report on procurement and concession activities from an inform
position, adding that the media is a conduit to promote good governance and
transparency for national development.
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