Cost of governance: Enugu emerges least in recurrent spending in Q1

The Enugu State authorities has emerged the astir prudent authorities successful recurrent expenditures, information published by Open Nigerian States, a website supported by BudgIT, has shown.

The feat has arsenic earned the Governor Peter Mbah-led medication commendation of an Enugu-based civilian nine organisation, the Enugu Good Governance Group, E-3G.

According to the Open Nigerian States, the fund implementation study of the states showed that portion Benue, Imo, Niger, Rivers, Sokoto and Yobe person nary information to their names, the remaining 30 states recorded N986.64bn successful recurrent expenditures, which includes workers salaries, refreshments, sitting allowances, travelling, utilities, among others successful archetypal 4th of 2024

Lagos recorded the highest recurrent expenses, being N189.62bn, followed by Delta, which recorded N68.68bn. Ebonyi recorded the highest recurrent expenses successful the South East with N14.95bn, followed by Abia with N10.92bn and Anambra with N9.91bn recurrent expenses.

However, Enugu State recorded lone N7.51bn to look the slightest successful recurrent expenditures successful some the portion and the full country. Reacting to the development, the Enugu Good Governance Group The group, successful a connection by its National Coordinator, Comrade Odinaka Okechukwu, said the improvement was yet different denotation that the governor’s beingness successful authorities was inspired by selfless service.“This is simply a wide grounds to the precocious level of fiscal subject successful the Governor Mbah Administration, and a objection that accountability, transparency, and traceability, which helium mouthed arsenic guiding principles successful the medication of nationalist funds were not specified run buzzwords.

“With a debased 107.2bn recurrent expenditure, representing astir 21 per cent of Enugu’s N521.5bn 2024 fund and a whooping N414.3bn oregon 79 per cent of the fund earmarked for superior projects, Governor Mbah has frankincense acold near nary 1 successful uncertainty of his committedness to disrupting the presumption quo to alteration the authorities successful each ramifications.“Also commendable is the governor’s disposition to national engagement. Besides respective municipality hallway meetings and media engagements, Mbah, connected Thursday, 30th May, 2024 engaged the citizens connected X (formerly Twitter) Space, connected authorities policies, programmes, and projects, among others,” the radical stated.