‘BPE Not Responsible For Sale Of Federal Govt Properties’

Make no mistakes, the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) is not responsible for sale of Federal Government’s landed property in the country.

So has been clarified by the Director General of the agency; Mr. Alex A. Okoh, while appearing before the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, chaired by Mr. Oluwole Oke on Tuesday, The BPE DG said in line with the core mandate of the Bureau, that it was only responsible for reforms, privatisation, commercialization/concessioning.

He said so far, 149 enterprises have been reformed, privatised or commercialised/concessioned by the agency and the proceeds of such reform projects deposited in the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) of the Federal Government.

The Director General’s appearance before the Committee was sequel to its summons for the DG to appear to respond to a petition by the Transparent Extractive Sector Operators Initiative.

This has to do with concerning the activities of the Implementation Committee of the White paper on the Commission on Inquiry into the Alienation and sale of Federal Government Landed Property which is not the purview of the BPE.

Okoh informed the Committee that the method  of sale of   the Federal Government assets undertaken  by the Bureau included core investor sale, share floatation, liquidation, public offers, asset sale, Debt/Equity Swap and Guided Liquidation amongst others.

Realizing that the Bureau was invited in error before the Committee, it unanimously resolved that the Bureau should submit to the Committee, a list of the proceeds of its privatization/enterprise reform activities its audited account from 2014-2018.

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The Director General said that the schedule of proceeds of privatisation would be tendered latest, Thursday, August 13, 2020.