Analysis of the Politics of Local Government Budgeting in Nigeria (1995-2011)

Ocheni, Stephen; Atakpa, Moses; Nwankwo, Basil C.

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“…However, Ocheni, Atakpa andNwankwo (2013) reported that poor performance of local governments in Nigeria squally centered on the politics of budgeting at the local government level. The failure and unethical nature of local governments budgeting has been a major concern to policy makers, political analyst, researchers, and citizens at for most local governments in developing countries.…”

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Budgeting Techniques and Budgetary Control in Local Governments: Participatory Budgeting a Critical Instrument for Sustainable Development

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2022

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Local Governments (LGs) plays a vital role in Sustainable Development (SD) at the grassroots. Despite the enormous powers and responsibilities vested in LGs, they failed to function efficiently and effectively due to the failure and unethical nature of LGs budgeting. LGs budgeting process suffer from inappropriate planning leading to misallocation of public funds. This call for better understanding of Budgeting Techniques (BT), Budgetary Control (BC), and instruments for effective BT and BC in LGs. Based on this, the study examined BT and BC with Participatory Budgeting (PB) as a critical instrument for SD in LGs. The study adopts exploratory research design. The study concluded that budget process and its implementation should be fair, equitable and transparent in the allocation of scarce resources in order to avert corruption, wastages and inefficiency in service delivery. Furthermore, adoption of PB technique will aid transparency, accountability, and probity in the distribution of public resources. It also aids in communicating government policies, programs, and political direction among the citizens, thereby entrenched democratic system. The study recommends that stakeholders should be fully involved in budget preparation while LG should installed sound internal control mechanism and effective budget monitoring and implementation strategies for performance appraisal and decision making. LG should also ensure strict compliance to due process and laid down rules on budgeting to safeguard fraud and financial recklessness on procurement of goods and services. In addition, Public Account Committee of the legislative house should be alert to their responsibilities.

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Budgeting Techniques and Budgetary Control in Local Governments: Participatory Budgeting a Critical Instrument for Sustainable Development

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“…Meanwhile tax is a compulsory levy imposed by Government on individuals and companies for the various legitimate function of the State (Olaoye, 2008). According to Ocheni et al, (2013) the statutory allocation from the federation account, serving as the main source of revenue to local government, is said to be inadequate and untimely received by the local government administration to enable discharge their obligations. Adenugba and Chike (2013) define revenue sources as the funds required by the government to finance its activities.…”

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Time Series Analysis of Monthly Generated Revenue in Gombe Local Government

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International Journal of Scientific and Innovative Mathematical

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Effects of legislature–executive conflict on budget and governance in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic

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2021

The Journal of Legislative Studies

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Analysis of the Politics of Local Government Budgeting in Nigeria (1995-2011)

Abstract: The poor performances of most local government councils in Nigeria had squarely centered around the politics of local government budgeting in the country. A cursory look at the project profile of all the local government councils in Nigeria (1995Nigeria ( -2011 1995-2011, revealed.

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Budgeting Techniques and Budgetary Control in Local Governments: Participatory Budgeting a Critical Instrument for Sustainable Development

Budgeting Techniques and Budgetary Control in Local Governments: Participatory Budgeting a Critical Instrument for Sustainable Development

Time Series Analysis of Monthly Generated Revenue in Gombe Local Government

Effects of legislature–executive conflict on budget and governance in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic

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