By Oluchi Chibuzor
BudgIT, a technology-driven civic organisation has revealed that about 33 states in Nigeria lack portals that enable members of the public to monitor and scrutinise their annual budget performance.
This was revealed during a virtual workshop on Advocacy and Budget and Project Monitoring organised by the organisation.
In his paper presentation, Mr. Tolulope Agunloye, of BudgIT on ‘Advocacy for Fund Disbursement and Improved Service Delivery,’ said only Kaduna and Edo states had portals where their budget performance could be monitored by members of the public, while Lagos operates partial opening of its budget to the public.
Agunloye, who explained that accessibility to such fiscal documents would promote transparency in governance, noted that before an organisation or an individual could advocate transparency in budgets, there must be objectives, which include planning and clear specific that must be achievable.
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