Civil society organisations in Kano, have raised concern over the constituency projects fund given to the Law maker in the state at federal level.
The groups believe that, the law makers are yet to deliver the constituency projects despite receiving huge amount of money from the government, for the purpose in there various communities.
Constituency projects in Nigeria, were created to ensure the presence of government in every constituency by having some grass-roots projects sited in each, during the budgeting process.
Legislators were merely required to identify projects which they wished to be sited in their constituencies for inclusion in the budget, with a financial ceiling for the budgetary provisions for such projects in each constituency.
The 1999 Constitution gives power to the National Assembly, to appropriate funds for government spending as highlighted in section 80 (2, 3, and 4) of the constitution.
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The question is are the law makers making good used of the funds giving to them to execute constituency project.
This is what triggered civil society in Kano to lunch and investigation as well as involving anti-craft agencies and media to check and see the development of the constituency projects in the 44 local government of Kano state.
The executive director resource Center for Human Rights and Civic Education, CHRICED, Ibrahim Zikirullah, said that ordinary citizen has lost hope and become absolutely alienated from the governance process.
Zikirullah believes that supporting public enlightenment, empowering citizens with skills and capacities to use innovative approaches, and also legal provisions to ensure funds for constituency projects, achieve the real objectives for which they were appropriated.
Edited by Tunde Orebiyi
