Tracking Trends of Corruption Through Abandoned Projects at the Sub-National Levels of Government
Social Development Integrated Centre | 07 September, 2018
Gapping Margin Persists Between Development Aspirations In States and Concrete Actions - New Citizens Report Highlights. 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. Titled: 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. Download Full Report
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