Group Says Only 8 States Make Budgets Transparent

Date: 2017-03-17

An advocacy group, BudgIT, on Thursday said that only eight of the 36 states of the federation made their annual budgets transparent.

The Head of Research in BudgIT, Mr Atiku Samuel, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that only Lagos, Gombe, Bauchi, Ekiti and Kaduna ran transparent budgets.

According to him, the other states are Edo, Kwara and Kogi.

Samuel said that it was wrong for states not to run transparent budgets, noting that not publishing budgets was contrary to the Federal Government's anti-corruption drive.

"Publishing budget is part of the 22 conditions given to state governments to access the bailout package.

"A requirement given by the Federal Government for accessing the package is that states should publish their budget documents and budget implementation reports online.

"Lack of publishing budgets by state governments should be frowned at because they leave the citizens with a deficit of information," he said.

The official added that the lack of information was unhelpful to the citizenry and constituted a challenge to BudgIT which, he said, needed the budgets for planning.

According to Samuel, published annual budgets should contain adequate information to enable citizens to understand them.

Samuel told NAN that BudgIT which focuses on creating demand for government information, driving accountability and transparency, needed to draw attention to the inadequacy.

He also claimed that there was disconnect between what governments through their Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) presented as budgets and what citizens actually wanted.

The official attributed this to lack of participatory budgeting.

He said that the citizens were not being involved in budget formulation process, adding that there was also little feedback from them.

 

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