- Human rights activist Femi Falana urges Accountant General of the Federation to publish monthly reports to all government levels
- Falana emphasizes transparency, urges media to demand monthly allocations to ensure government accountability and financial transparency
Femi Falana (SAN), a human rights activist, believes that the Accountant General of the Federation should publish monthly reports to all levels of government.
He argued that the government must be transparent to persuade Nigerians about what it is doing with the proceeds from the removal of oil subsidies.
Falana, speaking during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today, urged the media to consistently demand monthly allocations to all levels of government.
He stated, “We are demanding that the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation publish what is sent to each tier of government every month. That was the culture of the past. At some point, we were told that the government was going to be run transparently.
“Section 22 of the constitution states that the media should promote transparency and accountability in the government. So the media is compelled to demand every month what goes to every tier of government and to compare what was being earned before fuel subsidy removal and what is going to the federal government account after the subsidy removal.
“For almost a year, the NNPC did not remit any money to the federal account. But now we are told that they are no longer subsidizing fuel. They should tell us what they are making per month. The government said that it would be paying N35,000 wage award to workers every month; but now we are told only some months were paid.”