Nigeria: Between NASS and MDAs: Searching for culprits of haphazard budget implementation

Another cycle of budget presentation by the president to the National Assembly has begun. KUNLE ODEREMI writes on the role of the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the implementation of federal budgets, as well as the recurring poser on the inability of parliament to effectively assert itself by monitoring budget performance as well as carrying out its other oversight activities in the last 25 years.

Checks and balance is a cardinal valve designed to ensure the…