Despite wasting over N10 trillion on security votes, insecurity worsens in Nigeria

A group on Social Accountability has said  the 2021 budget of the Federal Government contains 316 duplicated projects valued at N39.5bn.

BudgIT said its investigations further revealed that 115 of the duplicated projects were from the Federal Ministry of Health, describing the development as disturbing.

BudgIT called on the government to audit security spending and close loopholes for corruption in the budget process.

The Chief Executive Officer of the firm, Gabriel Okeowo, was quoted as saying, “ The year 2021 has been a horrifying year for Nigerians concerning security as the country combats mutating forms of crime and terror across all its 36 states.

“This is despite allocating over N10.02tn to security between 2015 and 2021. In the 2021 budget, the entire security sector’s allocation was N1.97tn, representing a 14 per cent increase from the N1.78tn allocated in 2020.”