Federal Government of Nigeria

BudgIT, a civic organisation with focus on making the Nigerian budget and public data more comprehensible and accessible, says the...

“It is worthy of note that 614 street light projects with a cumulative value of N75.83bn, which were insertions observed in 2021, increased to 902 street light projects in 2022 valued at N114.95bn. “The aforementioned is a clear indication that the National Assembly leveraged the appropriation powers granted it by the constitution to exceed the N100bn ZIPs envelope to insert ‘constituency-like’ projects into the 2021 and 2022 Appropriation Acts. It submitted that cumulatively, the monetary value of the National Assembly insertions in the 2022 Appropriations Act was N910.37bn (which is 22.07% of the total capital expenditure for 2022). It observed that the monetary value of the 5,601 inserted projects summed up to N913.15 billion (which is 21.8% of the total capital expenditure for 2021), spread across 32 mother ministries and 327 ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government. It explained that the review of the annual budget by the National Assembly is one of the most important stages of the budget process, as that is ideally expected to reflect the inputs of citizens in the budget through their elected representatives. BudgIT said it analysed the 2021 and 2022 proposed and approved budgets of the Federal Government of Nigeria to ascertain the quality of the National Assembly review of the two years’ federal appropriation bills.