Group rises alarm over low budget performance in Jigawa health, education sector

From Mika’il Tsoho, Dutse

A non governmental Organization known as Exceptional Leadership and Integrity Promotion Initiative (ELIP-Initiative) rised an alarm over low budget performance for the year 2023, in the most critical sectors of health and education in Jigawa state.
The alarm was rised by the executive director ELIP-Initiative comrade Isah Mustapha while presenting the analysis of third quarter 2023 budget performance for health and education sectors in Dutse.
Comrade Isah who advocated urgent need for the state Ministry of health and education to make more effort to access its budget said, the low budget releases may hamper the state effort towards achieving it’s objectives.
According to him, some of the agencies recorded less than ten percent performance, while agencies like Islamic Education board and state tertiary education board recorded zero releases in third quarter 2023 despite overall performance in quarter 1-3 stood at 20 percent and 34 percent respectively.
He said, the health sectors recorded low budget performance since 2016 as according him, so far only N201 million released to the sectors adding that, “with recurrent trend of budget releases achieving 80 percent budget performance may be difficult fo the state”.