Nigeria: Budget Allocations Without Accountability

It has become loathsomely fashionable amongst all tiers of government in Nigeria, namely, the federal, state, local, ministries, departments, parastatals and all other government sponsored organisations to draw up or prepare their yearly budgets, that is, amounts of money to be spent in any coming year, without first of all giving proper and reliable accounts of huge sums of public money squandered in the preceding years.