Of palaces and ghost kingdoms, By Zainab Suleiman Okino
Increasingly, citizens view the budget process as an annual jamboree in which public resources are negotiated for private benefit, rather than national development.
Coming amid the raging controversy surrounding the so-called Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), the questions over its promoter, Mr Adeniyi Adeyemi Mathew, and the wider scandal involving its operations and the alleged involvement of the President’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, these budget revelations only reinforce public concerns about systemic governance failures.
What remains is often diverted through questionable projects, obscure agencies, or carefully crafted budget insertions controlled by a privileged clique that determines what gets funded, where funds are released, and ultimately how public money disappears.
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