- By Femi Alabi
BudgIT, a Nigeria civil tech organisation has said that the 2024 budget practice goes against one of the core principle of public budgeting which instructs that all expenditure breakdown be presented in the same budget document.
The Organization said its findings on Senator Ningi’s allegations of N3.7 trillion budget padding for 2024 budget shows that a breakdown of N25.4tn was provided for the budgets of the Ministries, Departments and Agencies
BudgIT on its X handle noted that while the comprehensive budget breakdown of some agencies was excluded from the budget that was passed does not mean the country is operating two budgets.
“While the comprehensive budget breakdown of GOEs, @nassnigeria, National Judicial Council, Public Complaints Commission, INEC, and TETFUND totaling N3.32tn was excluded from the budget that was passed and published.This does not mean the country operates two separate budgets.
“There’s only one final 2024 budget known to us. However, the summary budget of the aforementioned agencies was passed by the National Assembly and included in the published approved budget.”
“The practice of omitting the breakdown of certain government MDAs, the National Assembly, and the National Judicial Commission goes against one of the core principles of public budgeting which instructs that all expenditure breakdowns be presented in the same budget document.
“Although the FG published the proposed budget of GOEs, it is yet to publish the approval of GOEs”.
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