President Bola Tinubu has approved a debarment policy empowering the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) to sanction contractors who deliver substandard jobs or abandon government-funded projects. BPP Director-General, Dr. Adebowale Adedokun, disclosed this in an interview in Abuja, saying, “Debarment policy means if a contractor does a bad job… that contractor can be blacklisted.” He added that firms guilty of poor delivery after collecting public funds could face international blacklisting.
Adedokun revealed that the policy will run alongside new local-content procurement strategies targeting youth, women, and vulnerable groups. “We are now going to enforce the Nigerian First policy… introduce community-based procurement,” he said, noting that price benchmarking saved the FG ₦1.1 trillion in one year. He cited cases where reviewed pricing enabled agencies to purchase more vehicles, describing the measures as practical corruption-prevention outcomes.