 In a business, the government needs to do more to ensure that projects already allocated and budgets get completed for the overall benefit of the citizenry. This advice was given by Action Aid Nigeria at Capacity Beauty for young people on budget monitoring and tracking. Justice Akandoyi tells us more in the support. Budget is perhaps the most important instrument for the development of an emerging state apart from the constitution. Arguably, it is only through the instrumentality of it that government can allocate resources to deliver services to the people, especially the poor and excluded. However, in Nigeria, blockages include a lack of participation of citizens, an effective trucking of the implementation, non-access to budget document and regular report by government. It issues hampering effectiveness. And this workshop emphasis has been placed on carrying the young people along. Yes, there are a lot of budgets, there are a lot of projects that are being carried out by government and many of us are not tracking where those budgets are coming from. Many of us don't know where those budgets, how much budget I am made for each of the projects. We only see road construction, we only see school buildings, we only see ongoing projects in the state. But many of us don't know how much was initially budgeted for such projects. If we look at what is happening in Nigeria today, we have to be deliberate in ensuring that young people get involved in whatever that is happening in the society, be it in election, in public finance, engagement, in covenants, in accountability. Despite the launch of the Open Treasury Portal in 2019 aimed at boosting financial transparency in the country, analysts say that the federal government and its agencies continue to bridge its own standard as it has not kept up with efficient and timely publishing of statements. At a scale of one to ten, I will give you the four. The reason is because there is lack of openness, there is lack of engagement as well. Governments at all levels, whether at the federal, at the state, particularly at the sub-national level, have not been very open in showing the books. With the whole engagement by civil society, so we have the budget documents and then the whole essence is also to track. So I will say that there is a level of transparency and improvement. However, they need to do more, they need to do more to ensure that budget or projects that are already allocated for in the budget will ensure that there should be a completion status. For the young people, they say the time has come to get more involved, if desired changes can be achieved. When we are aware of what budgets have been created and the importance of this budget, then we will track the progress using the necessary methods and necessary tools and then also advocate for the right implementation of this budget. The consensus here is that there is need to promote citizens engagement in the entire budget cycle from selection of project through implementation to monitoring and evaluation, while citizens groups should work more closely with the legislature and the media to ensure effective tracking, monitoring and oversight. Justin Acadone, Plastibe News Lagos.