CSOs To Track N28.7trn 2024 Budget Implementation

Civil society organisations (CSOs) under the aegis of Community Advancement and Humanitarian Empowerment Initiative in Nigeria (CSCHEI) have unveiled plans to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the N28.777 trillion 2024 budget.

The appropriation bill which was passed by the National Assembly during a special plenary session held on Saturday, December 30, 2023 was signed into law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday, January 1, 2024 at the State House, Abuja.

The group‘s director-general, Hon. Kunle Yussuf, who gave the assurance via a statement made available to journalists in Abuja, affirmed that the CSOs remain important sources of information for both citizens and the government.

According to him, „as an umbrella platform for coordinating, organizing, mobilizing, and promoting NGOs, CBOs and FBOs within the scope of community advancement and humanitarian empowerment, it‘s our responsibility to monitor Government policies and also hold various agencies, commissions responsible, and accountable appropriately.

Budget control mechanisms are the processes of managing, monitoring, and adjusting cash flow to ensure both human development and infrastructural development tracking. It‘s important for the Civil society organizations to work with government to ensure transparency and accountability for enhancement of social economic development indicators, gross domestics products (GDP), life expectancy, literacy, levels of employment, environmental sustainability, basic and secondary education, and social dignity in our country.

At this critical time of economic challenges in our dear Country, every hand must be on the desk for fairness and equity. The era of wasting or stealing taxpayers‘ money should be a foregone issue in Nigeria.

CSCHEI will work with relevant Federal Government establishments in making sure that every budgetary provision is spent judiciously.

In 2024, we are prepared to work with the desk officer of Mr. President on Monitoring and Evaluation,

Sustainable Development Goals, National Assembly Committees on Public Accounts, and the Bureau of Public Procurement to achieve desirable goals. The Renewed Hope Agenda of Mr. President would not be achieved if 2024 budgetary provisions lack meritorious monitoring and evaluations.

We will engage director-general of budget on the reasons for Niger Delta Development Commission to get budget of N338. 94 billion and Universal Basic Education in Nigeria get N263.04 billion and the North East Development Commission also gets a budget of N131. 836 billion, while the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency in Nigeria will get N131.522 billion,” he said.