CAPITAL BUDGET PULLOUT ON EDUCATION IN SOKOTO STATE FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR 2022

In accordance with the mandate of Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) to ensure inter alia that public resources are made to work and be of benefit to all, we present the Sokoto State 2022 Education Capital Budget Pull-Out. This has been our tradition since the last fifteen years to provide capital budget information to Nigerians. The pull-out provides information on the education budget, name of projects, locations and the amount budgeted.

By section 24 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigerian 1999 (as amended), it is the duty of every Nigerian to make positive and useful contributions to the advancement, progress and well-being of the community where the person resides. In providing this pullout, CSJ facilitates the performance of the civic duty and removes the boredom of every citizen having to search through hundreds of pages of the state budget to find out the projects sited in their community and or of interest to him/her. In these days of harsh economic realities leading to increased poverty, job losses, high inflation rate and depreciating national currency, Nigerians should ensure greater value for money and that every kobo counts. We should use social mobilization to block leakages in the system and budget monitoring comes in handy.

Democracy and development are a peoples’ work in progress; they demand meaningful participation, vigilance on the part of citizens and holding duty bearers to account. The money in the budget belongs to us all as citizens, tax payers, mothers, fathers, young men and women, etc. Transparency and governmental accountability are not usually products of written legal or policy documents; they come from a peoples’ push and insistence that processes must be open.

CSJ expects Nigerians of all shades, not just the NGOs but the media, organised labour, organised private sector, professional groups, informal sector groups, women organisations, the youth, faith based organisations, community development associations, town unions, etc to go out there and be in the forefront of following the money to determine if it reached the appropriated destination.

How good and how pleasant it will be, before God and man, to see that Sokoto’s money and resources are made to work and be of benefit to all.

May God continue to bless Sokoto State.

Eze Onyekpere, Esq

Lead Director