By Doh Bertrand Nua
The minister of Public Contracts has defended his draft budget for 2021 which stands at FCFA 14.4 billion. Ibrahim Talba Malla defended the budgetary allocation in front of the Budget and Finance Committee Tuesday 1 December 2020. The sum is broken down into operating budget of FCFA 13.3 billion and investment budget of 1.1 billion. It witnessed FCFA 2.05 billion drop (14.16%).
Minister Talba Malla talking to reporters after defending budget
The minister disclosed that the budget would be used in three operational phases including the improvement of public procurement system administration through perpetuation and consolidation of the mechanism for anticipating the holding of public contracts programming conferences, popularization of new public contracts code.
He said the ministry will also step up external control of the execution of supplies and service provision contracts as well as stepping up external control of infrastructure contracts, set-up E-procurement project management unit, intensify missions to fight against corruption and malpractices in public contracts, improve working environment at the ministry through construction of buildings to house its services.
Talba Malla said the 2020 finance year which is coming to an end was devoted to continuing the implementation of the public contracts reform of 20 June 2018 through the implementation of four programmers including improvement of public procurement administration, stepping up external control of supplies and service provision contracts, governance and institutional support in the public procurement sub-sector and stepping up external control of infrastructure contracts.
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