I am a founding director of Front Foot Media Initiative, a civil society organisation pursuing, among others, public accountability. One of those issues: Auditor-General reporting in the states, for which, in three years, we engaged or trained hundreds of journalists and managers.
Recently, FFMI concluded an in-depth study of the non-compliance reports of the Auditor-General of the Federation for four years: 2019-2022.
Two of the things I can now say are: first, that as bad as any living Nigerian might think things are in public finance management, they are infinitely worse. The numbers don’t lie.
The second is that Nigerian governments appear determined to keep it that way. How?
In January 2019, the National Assembly transmitted the Federal Audit Bill to President Muhammadu Buhari, who had spent all his political life portraying himself as loathing corruption.
It would have replaced the Audit Ordinance of 1956, a law written before Nigeria
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