BudgIT, a Nigerian civic organisation through its service delivery promotion platform, Tracka, has revealed that the Nigerian government in the 2023 budget allocation, allocated the sum of N81.7 billion for the construction of streetlight projects, a budgetary allocation which is higher than the total allocation for education and health.
According to the civic organisation, the allocation for the streetlight projects was higher than the total allocation to schools and primary health centres in the country, which stood at N77.9 billion and N3.1 billion respectively, in the budget.
Oladayo stated that in a country plagued with these critical issues, dwindling revenue and a failing economy, the bogus allocation to streetlights is a gross misplacement of priority, adding that Nigeria is also presently littered with non-functional and vandalised streetlights that have stopped working less than two years after their construction.
“An example is the News Agency of Nigeria which was allocated N200 million to construct solar streetlights in Rivers State. What business does NAN have with streetlights?" “In the 2022 budget expenditure, we uncovered N10 billion in payments made to 18 personal accounts for vague services.
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