“My leadership will ensure that procurement stays as a professional institution with the key mandate to regulate and monitor as enshrined in the Procurement Act of 2016 and its 2006 regulations.” These were the words of the incoming Chief Executive of the National Public Procurement Authority.

The outgoing Chief Executive, Mr. Brima Bangura, having spent almost 6 years as NPPA boss failed to divulge finances left in the institution’s coffers after outlining his huge successive administrative reforms under the President Ernest Bai Koroma led APC government.

Nonetheless, his successor, Ibrahim Brima Swarray has strongly vowed to instill internal discipline among members of staff and also ensures procurement stays as a professional institution with the key mandate to regulate and monitor as enshrined in the Procurement Act.

Almost immediately, after the handing over ceremony at the NPPA on Thursday 14 June 2018, the incoming Chief Executive, Ibrahim Brima Swarray promised to meet the constitutional provision by ensuring the National Public Procurement Authority tables in Parliament its performance evaluation report for all MDAs countrywide.

He also has plans afoot to develop compliance and performance monitoring system to improve a monitoring manual and risk based approaches to monitoring, including rating for all procuring entities according to their level of compliance and performance.

To conduct regular reviews and audit of procurement activities across procuring entities and publish findings of reviews and audits, to foster accountability and transparency.
The ceremony was graced by family members, government functionaries and civil society activists.