THE STATE, PUBLIC PROCUREMENT REFORMS AND BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION IN THE POWER SECTOR IN NIGERIA, 1999-2012
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This paper explored the interface of the character of state in Nigeria, the public procurement reforms and budget implementation in the power sector in the light of the acute electric power crisis experienced in the country from 1999 to 2012. In doing this, the paper relied substantially on documentary method of data collection, content analysis and core assumptions of the Marxist theory of the post-colonial state. Thus, the paper implicated primitive capital accumulation underlying capital budget implementation in the power sector in Nigeria as a defining element of the lacuna and contradictions in the procurement reforms and capital budget investments in the sector. The penchant in actualizing the avowed covert and overt interests by the custodians of the state in Nigeria explained the logic of the successive Federal Executives’ interference in the procurement procedures of the power sector and poor developments and expansion in the electric power generation infrastructures in the country. As a means of entrenching efficiency in contract procurement and overall capital budget implementation in the power sector, the paper recommended policy effort aimed at the establishment of independent procurement institution with the mandate to regulate the procurement activities in all sectors of the economy in line with the Nigeria’s Public Procurement Act.
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