Mohammed Abubakar, the
Inspector General of Nigeria's Police announced the promotion of 24,118 police
staff. This was a joyous occurrence for those promoted, as well as for the
thousands of families and friends. However there was one slight issue: as these
officers were given promotions, budget was also cut. In 2013, it was at
N293.5bn, and was reduce this year by N13bn! According to Inspector General
Abubakar, pretty soon they will not even be able to pay salaries.
Now the question is where is all the money being cut out going? The
Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Aloma Muhktar argued that “a situation where
budgetary allocation to the judiciary continues to drop while the general
government budget is on steady increase every year is clearly an impediment to
the quick and effective dispensation of justice in Nigeria and on the whole a
set back to the current effort at transforming the judiciary.”The Ekiti State
House of Assembly members have since noticed that N480million was being
dedcuted monthly from the state accruable revenue. Also, it seems that there
may be illegal deductions of oil revenues from the federation account by state
governors. In the last three years, according to Kayode Fayermi, Ekiti State
governor, over N4.62 trillion had been deducted from the Federation Account in
only the last three years. Now what exactly is the deal here?
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