Abandoned Projects - Citizens Report 2017
Social Development Integrated Centre | 07 September, 2018
ABANDONED
PROJECTS, 2017 Citizens' Report On Budgets Of Selected states In Nigeria, the
report contains the analysis and findings from the collaborative monitoring of
the implementation of the 2017 budgets, income and expenditure trends of selected States of Nigeria by members of
the Anti-Corruption Networks coordinated by the Social Development Integrated
Centre, (Social Action). The 2017 report was focused on the Niger Delta States,
the South-eastern and selected Northern States.
The pattern of underwhelming spending on the social sector
continued in 2017, even as budgeting in the States remained poor as projects
executed in previous years continued to appear in budgets as new projects while
several projects that gulped vast budgetary funds over the years were either
roundly abandoned or never got off the ground. Budget lines continued to be
vague, ill-described or ambiguously defined in budget documents hindering
accountability and good governance much to the detriment of the people whose
lives projects would have impacted positively. Phantom, ill-executed and
abandoned projects were strong underbelly factors not only because they do not
address the needs that made the projects necessary in the first instance but importantly
also, because many of the projects have direct impacts on people's lives or
livelihoods because they are often projects that could improve security,
advance education and health and provide employment.
http://saction.org/books/Citizens%20Report-2017-single.pdf
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