By Kayode Sanni-Arewa
Tracka, a subsidiary of BudgIT, has said that Nigeria allocated N732 billion on vague empowerment projects higher than the N646.5 billion allocated to health projects in the 2024 national budget.
Ayomide Ladipo, the Head of Tracka disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
Tracka maintained that Nigeria’s empowerment projects were vague and challenging to track due to their nature.
According to Tracka, the huge allocation for empowerment projects would have been channeled to curb the gap in Nigeria’s health sector having the second-highest child mortality rate in the World.
Tracka alleged that empowerment projects were used as a funnel to siphon public resources.
It noted that the National Assembly has 7,447 projects valued at N2.24 trillion in the 2024 budget.