CIPS Uganda graduates warned on corruption

CIPS graduates in Uganda have been asked to be professional in procurement and to avoid being susceptible to corruption.

Edgar Agaba, the executive director of the Public Procurement and Disposal Assets (PPDA) in Uganda also advised procurement professionals to desist from any corruption tendencies in a speech delivered at the graduation ceremony of 22 procurement students in Kampala.

The procurement professionals were awarded with certificates in levels 4, 5 and six of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS). 

Agaba explained that Uganda is lacking Continuous Professional Development (CPD) procurement expertise, recognising that the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply promote professional procurement development in Uganda.

"You try as much as you can to act professional. In the past this job was regarded as an obscure one," Agaba said.

He noted that there are over 150 members in Uganda fully registered with the Chartered Institute of purchasing and supply, adding that the government reorganizes professional development in procurement.

"CIPS graduates have acquired jobs both in the public and private sector. Procurement curricular was introduced in universities for both undergraduate and post graduate students clearly indicating full support from the government," Agaba said.

David Noble, CIPS Chief Executive Officer,  who conferred upon certificates to the procurement professionals explained that the major challenge facing the procurement industry is "many people think they are good buyers."

Noble was worried that world estimation have showed that fossil oils are running out, implying that the world might run short of oil by 2015, hence a risk to supply management.

Innocent Muhwezi, the CIPS Uganda Branch Chairman, said they used to graduate only 5 students in 1995 from Uganda in the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.

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