{"id":702682,"date":"2019-09-10T14:54:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/10\/i-didnt-inflate-contracts-during-my-tenure-as-power-minister-fashola\/"},"modified":"2019-09-10T14:54:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:54:12","slug":"i-didnt-inflate-contracts-during-my-tenure-as-power-minister-fashola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/10\/i-didnt-inflate-contracts-during-my-tenure-as-power-minister-fashola\/","title":{"rendered":"I Didn&#8217;t Inflate Contracts During My Tenure As Power Minister: Fashola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_693903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-693903\" style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-693903\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Babatunde-fashola-653x365.png\" alt=\"Babatunde Raji Fashola\" width=\"653\" height=\"365\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-693903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Babatunde Raji Fashola<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, has distanced himself from reports that there were inflations in the contracts awarded by the ministry in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This was in reaction to claims by the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) that it saved N26 billion for the federal government in 2018 by revising the sums of government contracts approved by some ministries, departments, and agencies.<\/p>\n<p>According to BPP, the highest reduction was made from the ministry of power, works and housing where N22.22 billion was cut from a request of N877.40 billion.<\/p>\n<p>During the said period, Fashola was in charge of the ministry before by President Muhammadu Buhari removed it from his portfolio in August.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by Fashola\u2019s spokesperson, Hakeem Bello, on Monday, he said the claim that savings were made by the agency is subjective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing a department of the same government, ordinarily this should not warrant a reply; however the misleading nature of the reporting in the media and the statements credited to BPP compel a response for the purposes of clarification and enlightenment of the public,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Fashola\u2019s Hair All Grey Because He Handled 3 Large Ministries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny person who takes time to read the provisions of the Public Procurement Act, which created the BPP will understand that no contract can be awarded until BPP certifies that it has NO OBJECTION.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore there was no INFLATED contract because BPP clearly stated that it reduced the costs, and according to BPP she \u2018\u2026 saved over N26 Billion\u2026\u2019 And this is the heart of the matte, because BPP\u2019s \u2018savings\u2019 can only be a SUBJECTIVE assessment based on rates quoted by contractors, reviewed by the ministry,, and sent to BPP for certification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce rates are published and design is known, quantities can be ascertained and costs can be determined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the field of Quantity Surveyors and Construction Economists, and the Minister of Works and Housing has not made any secret about his call for a revision of the Public Procurement Act to resolve this and other gaps in the Law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, during the first term of this Administration, the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing had commissioned the compilation of a service-wide Rate of major items of procurement from the largest to the smallest for BPP to consider, adopt or amend and publish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Babatunde Raji Fashola Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, has distanced himself from reports that there were inflations in the contracts awarded by the ministry in 2018. 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