THE United Nations Office for Project Services has been accused of recruiting foreign companies to import mosquito treated nets into Nigeria as against the directive of the Federal Government.
A petition sent to the National Assembly and copied the Ministers of Health and Justice, and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), one of the vendors, Rosies Textile Mills Ltd, accused UNOPS of ignoring the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the FG in order to recruit international manufacturers to import long lasting insecticide treated nets (LLIN).
In the memo signed on September 5, 2022 between the Federal Ministry of Health and UNOPS, $64,671,546.04 loan sourced from IsDB shall be used to procoure locally made LLIN for four states of Bayelsa, Edo, Enugu, Kogi and tbe Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Both parties in the MOU agreed that “the goods shall be procured through solicitation. In line with the spirit of the Presidential Executive Order 003, both UNOPS and NMEP (National Malaria Elimination Programme) agree that participation of locally manufactured products is critical for sustainability and to spur local job creation, and therefore international competitive bidding qill only bebused fpr products hat are not currently locally manufactured or of acceptable quality.
