A report released in Abuja on Tuesday by the Civil Resource Development Centre, an economic think tank, has ranked Jigawa as the best state in the Nigerian States Budget Transparency Survey 2022.
The Executive Director of CIRDDOC, Ral Nwankwo-Obioha, said transparency was an important step to holding governments accountable on how they used public funds.
Nwankwo-Obioha said it had the objectives of comparing the degree of budget transparency across states, promoting international best practices with regards to budgeting and budget process in the states, and inspiring and encouraging the spirit of ‘competitiveness’ amid states towards promoting budget transparency and government accountability.All rights reserved.
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