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"We Dare where others fear"
By Awan Achiek
The Minister of Finance and Planning Awow Daniel Chuang on Tuesday tabled the Public Procurement and Disposal Assets Bill 2024, before the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) for enactment into an Act.
Chuang while presenting the bill to MPs said that it would address the weaknesses of the Public Procurement Assets Act, 2018, and also improve delivery of public goods and services including public utilities, educational system and medical services across the country.
He disclosed that Public Procurement and Disposal Assets Bill 2024 will enhance fiscal discipline in ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).
Chuang also said that the bill will promote transparency and accountability during the procurement and disposal of assets process, as well as create employment opportunities which will lead to economic growth.
He added that the bill will improve government revenue collection through taxes from suppliers and service providers.
Oliver Mori Benjamin, Chairperson of Parliamentary Committee for Information and Communication, said the bill will guide the government mainly on assets disposal and procurement.
“We have vehicles and other assets, whether they are fixed or movable assets. There has not been any law guiding on how these assets can be disposed of,” Mori told journalists after the parliamentary session in Juba.
Mori said that any institution that wants to dispose of it’s assets will have to do so under the guidance of the Public Procurement and Assets Disposal Act when passed into law by MPs.
“And if a department or a ministry wants to buy a vehicle or certain items, they will have to follow this procurement bill,”
Dr. Jemma Nunu Kumba, the Speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly submitted the bill to the Standing Committee on Finance for proper scrutiny before it’s brought to the house for debate within 14 days from now.
