Browsing by Author "Mari, Usman Mohammed"

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    ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ; OVERSIGHT FUNCTIONS ON CORRUPTION
    (Department of Public Administration, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2019-09-19) Mari, Usman Mohammed; Hussaini, Hassan Tukur; Abdullahi, Mohammed
    Oversight is one of the key functions of the National Assembly meant at identifying and inhibiting inefficiency, waste; as well as ensuring' effectiveness in governance and compliance with legislative intent. It is a veritable tool for the fight against corruption and also a constitutional tool for the realization of accountability of the government to the people. This study evaluates the role of National Assembly. Oversight Functions on Corruption. Thus, through the analysis of existing data on the subject matter, the study found out that the National Assembly has not exhausted the provisions of the 1999 constitution to ensure sanctionhig of corrupt public officials and series of corruption. allegations against Legislators and unwholesome practices in the conduct of committee's oversight functions had hindered effective oversight over corruption. Therefore, the study recommended that the National Assembly should invoke the provisions of 1999 Constitution to sanction corruption and put mechanisms in place to check corruption allegations levelled against legislators. These will repositioned the National Assembly oversight function ineffectively curbing corruption.
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    EFFECTS OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT ACT ON ACOUNTABILITY IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PROCUREMENT PROCESS
    (Department of Public Administration, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2019-04-20) Mari, Usman Mohammed; Hussaini, Hassan Tukur
    This research work is about Public Procurement Act and Accountability in the Nigerian National Assembly Procurement Process. It evaluates how accountable the Nigerian National Assembly is to the Public Procurement Act, Procurement Processes and how answerable it is to the Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP) the regulatory body of Public Procurement in Nigeria. It is also an attempt at documenting the Process and Procedures of the Nigerian National Assembly Public Procurement activities. The study employed Documentary Research, thus it relied on Public Procurement Act, 2007, Procurement Manuals, National Assembly procurement reports and minutes of meetings and the data realized were analyzed with aid of deductive reasoning. The study revealed that the National Assembly is accountable to the PPA, 2007 in respect to adopting principles of transparency, competition, value for money in her procurement processes, however, in submitting annual procurement reports for auditing purpose, seeking approval for its Procurement Plan and obtaining Certificate of No-Objection for awarding contracts as prescribed by the PPA, the National Assembly does not relate with BPP, the regulatory agency for public procurement activities in Nigeria. Therefore, National Assembly is not accountable to the Public Procurement Act, 2007.