According to him, from the perspective of an economist, budget is much more than the headlines we read in newspapers, as budget, whether federal or state, determines the fate of the people; the direction of government and its policies.
Ajibola further stated that journalists must scrutinise budgets as it should not be left to the president, ministers and National Assembly members. “Journalists must ask questions about the budget – the sources of revenue and how the revenue is being spent. This is what it means to hold government accountable to the people, as enunciated in Section 22 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” he said.
Mr. Damilola Ojetunde, a data analyst from Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project , Dr. Theophilus Abbah from Daily Trust Foundation and Atiku Samuel from International Budget Partnership Abuja challenged journalists to look beyond the call to duties to identify other challenges within the context of budget tracking with a view to influencing public interest and promoting democracy.
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