THE Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has advised state Houses of Assembly to adopt the recently amended Public Procurement Act and enact it to help local manufacturers.

Saraki, who gave the advice while addressing the first set of beneficiaries of the Skill acquisition Training and Empowerment Programme, STEP, initiated by him to empower youths in his home state, Kwara, said the adoption of the new Procurement Act would ensure that state government agencies joined their federal counterparts in putting money in citizens’ pockets.

Saraki

He called on the Speaker of Kwara State House of Assembly, Dr. Alli Ahmed, to take the message to his colleagues in other states on the need for legislators to focus on laws that could be enacted to help people out of the current economic recession.

He said: “This is a challenging time for all of us and it requires ingenuity, creativity and thinking out of the box to come up with ideas that will put people to work.”