1,500 students have graduated from the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University’s World Bank Project on Sustainable Procurement, Environment and Social Standards Enhancement.

Speaking at the graduation ceremony on Monday, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ibrahim Hassan Garba who is also the Coordinator, Sustainable Procurement, Environmental and Social Standards Center of Excellence (SPESSCE) ATBU, said that the programmes were introduced by the World Bank to reduce the corruption emanating from procurement, train environmental experts and social standards specialist.

“This training is for a capacity building programme to address the skills gap in procurement standard, the practice of environmental and social standards.

“The training spans through tracks –track A is run for five days where participants get their certificates, track B is where participants learn within 80 hours or three to four weeks while we have track D post-graduate diploma, track E is professional and academic masters,” Garba said.

He explained that the programme is designed to help the people in the procurement process to be more conversant with the existing law.

“The procurement law holds the chief executive officer accountable but he doesn’t know the law. Now with this programme, we train procurement officers while we also organise a master class for chief executives.”

The Centre Coordinator said that the programme is designed for students to attend classes virtually and receive their certificate physically at the University Campus.
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