A three-man delegation of the World Bank has paid a five-day visit to Lagos State Public Procurement Agency, to assess the electronic-Government Procurement (e-GP) system of the state.
A procurement specialist with the World Bank, Akin Onimole, who led the delegation, said the visit was a follow-up to the one by the regional manager of the bank to the agency last year when it asked for the support of the bank.
Onimole, an engineer, who is also former general manager of the agency, expressed delight about the achievements it had made, particularly in the e-Government Procurement system.
He said he was impressed by the practical demonstration of the e-GP system by officials of the agency and the three Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) that were visited for the assessment.
A Rwanda-based World Bank e-GP consultant and a member of the assessment team, Mr. Richard Migambi, said the visit was to enable the bank to know the level where the agency was with regard to the deployment and operation of the e-Government Procurement system in the state.
Receiving the World Bank team, the Director General, Lagos State Public Procurement Agency, Mr. Fatai Onafowote, thanked it for the positive response given to the agency’s request for support aimed at enhancing the e-Government Procurement system of the agency.
He said the agency began the digitalisation process in 2018 and currently has 159 MDAs of the state onboarded on the e-Government Procurement platform of the state.
