The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership has called for a review of the budgetary allocation usually called security votes by the federal, state and local governments across the country. The group made the call in a statement released on Monday while responding to a recent revelation by Transparency International that Federal and State Governments spend over N240 billion on security votes annually purportedly for tackling unexpected security issues. Adeniran said, “The current arrangement whereby chief executives of various tiers of government disburse security votes- which is a carry-over from the military era- as it pleases them creates room for massive corruption. “While we implore the Government to be judicious in its handling of security vote’s allocation, we also call for a proper audit into previously spent security votes to ensure there are no fraudulent activities involved and also to ensure that these funds were used exactly for the purpose they were meant for. (Visited 228 times, 1 visits today)

Source: Punch May 30, 2018 08:26 UTC