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Home » Education » Out-of-school kids in Nigeria rise from 10.5m to 18m in 23yrs despite N100tr budget

Out-of-school kids in Nigeria rise from 10.5m to 18m in 23yrs despite N100tr budget

by Jungle Journalist
June 16, 2022
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From John Akubo, Abuja

The Deputy Director MacArthur Foundation, Mr. Dayo Olaide has raised issues over the rise in out of school children from 10.5m in 1999 to 18million in 2022 despite N100trillion budget by the Federal Government within the same period.

Olaide spoke on Thursday in Abuja at a policy dialogue on situating Constituency Projects in the 2023 Electioneering Campaigns organised by OrderPaper in partnership with Budgit and MacArthur Foundation.

He expressed disappointment that lawmakers are rather concerned about commendations that they passed the budget without implementation and realtime impact on the citizenry

“So my first observation is to say that when we score ourselves as lawmakers, we should go beyond legislative activities that we are able to engage in – the laws that we are able to give to Nigerians.

“When the National Assembly passes the Appropriation, it is a law but the effect and impact of that appropriation will never be felt by the ordinary Nigerians unless it is implemented and there are clear indicators that are human-centred to show the extent at which they are actually impacting us.

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“Between 1999 and as we speak, the Nigeria’s Federal Government has budgeted over N100trillion. This year 2022 is N17trillion, last year N13trillion, 2020 – N11trillion, 2019 – N8trillion, that is already over N40trillion.

“And between 1999 and 2018, it budgeted over N63trillion – that is the federal government.

“But within that same period, out of school children rose from 10.5million to 18million. So ask the question, where are those over N100 trillion gone to.”

He said the tendency is for lawmakers be commending themselves when in real terms the implementation is nothing to write home about

“Otherwise, we will be patting ourselves on the back and say two years ago, the budget was passed March the following year, but this year budget even in December before the end of the current year.

“It is success and progress, yes, we should commend the National Assembly for doing that but Nigerians are not concerned about those passages.

“Nigerians when they wake up every morning, they are asking themselves, what does this budget mean for me as a person.”

“The member of the House of Representatives that spoke before me indicated that in the last couple of years there has been improvement and progress in legislative activities.

“In fact, for many of us, we applauded the National Assembly when the House of Representatives and the Senate commenced the process of developing for themselves a legislative agenda because we all felt this was a turning point and provided an opportunity for us to engage them and to hold them to account.

“I think in terms of making laws, many of us will say, yes indeed, which ever sector or part of the economy you look at there is progress.

“For example the sector that I am very much interested in which is governance, there is progress. You can talk about the Public Procurement Law which was never there. You can talk about the anti-corruption Act and the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the Nigerian Extractive Transparency Initiative Act and several important legislations that are in place.

“But the significance of any law is not in the paper that has been signed. It is in the impact that it is able to make in the lives of the ordinary Nigerians and I think that is why the biggest deficit is.

He said looking at the education or health sectors, it is difficult to argue that there has been progress even though there is progress in the number of laws, whether at federal or state in all the areas

Representative of Budgit Adewale Adejola, who stood in for the Country Director Mr. Gabriel Okiewu in his remarks said despite 469 federal lawmakers, 36 Governors, House of Assembly members and local government Chairmen and Councillors, it is so disheartening that people’s needs are not being captured in the communities. “Sometimes the legislators don’t even know the situation of the people they are representing.That is why needs assessment is important.

“With our Tracker department we monitor constituency projects in 32 states and the FCT. So we have the understanding of what is actually happening across the country.

“We also see that empowerment projects take more than 60 per cent of the N100billion allocation for constituency projects every year.

“Of the amount, the Principal Officers like the Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Senate Leader and his counterpart in the House etc, take the largest share.

“Like the Speaker, Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila his share of projects is more that that of lawmakers from two states combined. I stay in Lagos and if I measure the developments in Federal constituency 1 that he represents, the funds being allocated to the zonal intervention project cannot be compared to the projects on ground. So people don’t know.”

“The biggest challenge we have today is not corruption even though I do say sometimes, is corruption, it is the fast disappearing confidence and trust of citizens in anything that represent Government and democracy now.”

“I think Constituency projects present the unique opportunity for the National Assembly to build and restore that confidence so that when we say we speak on behalf and we appropriate funds on your behalf, we are actually doing that.

“We are ensuring that allocations actually gets to the people and we can tract them. We need to restore citizen’s confidence in Government and democracy and in everything and anyone that represents Government because ultimately citizens will protect democracy and protect those who are driving it.”

“The national Assembly have an immediate responsibility to stop that descent and begin to restore confidence. The easiest way is to begin to respond to the people by doing projects that matters to them, appropriating resources to areas that will touch them.”

Executive Director, OrderPaper Advocacy Initiative, Oke Epia, said, as lawmakers have come to the season they need Nigerians to remain in the chambers there was need to evaluate almost four years they have done.

“That is the mandate we have brought upon ourselves at OrderPaper in the last couple of months to do some form of appraisal, it may not be very exhaustive, around the core functions of the legislature – Law making, performance of oversight and representation.

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