Yobe emerges 2024 budgetary best-performing state.
Yobe emerges 2024 budgetary best-performing state.
Yusuf Bukar Biriri.
Yobe state has emerged the best state budgetary performing state with an impressive 98.6 per cent in the 2024 Agora Policy annual performance report of Subnationals on budgetary performance.
In a statement made available to newsmen by the Director General press and media affairs to the Yobe state Governor Alhaji Mamman Muhammad Said Agora Policy, a Nigerian non-profit and policy think tank organisation with a focus on economic growth, development, democracy and good governance, rated Yobe as the best-performing state in the 2024 budget, followed by Delta and Rivers states, emerging second and third positions, respectively.
The state Governor, Hon. (Dr) Mai Mala Buni CON, COMN, while reacting to the report said the emergence of Yobe state with 98.6 per cent would spur his administration to achieve higher targets in budgetary discipline and financial prudence.
The Governor said the government has been consistent in developing and implementing budgets that are realistic and in tune with the economic realities.
“We have also been guided by budgetary discipline, transparency and financial prudence in running the affairs of the state government.
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“This recognition would spur us to continue to do more in budgetary discipline, due process and financial prudence” Governor Buni assured.
Yobe State’s policy on financial transparency has continued to earn the state awards and recognition from notable organisations, including the State Fiscal Transparency Accountability and Sustainability (SFTAS), a World Bank programme, rating the state as the best in fiscal transparency and accountability.
Similarly, the Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative (Plsi), an internationally recognised civil society group noted for tracking public accountability and transparency in expenditure of public funds, scored Yobe state as the best performing state in 2023 and 2024 surpassing 35 others in the Subnational Audit Efficacy index report on accountability and transparency in public funds.
