Nigeria: The Latest 20 'Hidden' Destinations of Purported Health Spendings in the 2020 Proposed Budget

16 November 2019

Abuja — About N5 billion will go to service major construction works in the nation's health sector in the 2020 proposed budget, but development experts, working around accountability process in public budgeting, worry that this may come to waste because the projects they are nominated to develop are not captured in the vision of the Ministry of Health, the regulatory institution for health development in the country.

In the proposed budget, a minimum of 20 health-related projects got generous appropriation but only for construction purposes and without regard for how much health facilities will be subsequently manned, staffed and remunerated, since the Ministry of Health which has these responsibilities has been bypassed by this budgetary arrangement.

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