 A civic tech non-profit organization budget has called on the federal government to audit security spending and close loopholes for corruption in the budget process. After its audit exposed numerous budget pardons, Osarege Obamawa spoke with the founder of budget Shen O'Giddingbyn, Onigwin Diabergio-Pardon, and Kenefe, an economist. Osarege is here with his report. A report by a civil service organization budget has uncovered alleged cases of misappropriation in Nigeria's 2021 budget. The report shows recurrent expenditure items disguised within the capital budget and also exposes 316 duplicate projects worth over 40 billion lira. Budget padding has been a phenomenon that has plagued Nigeria's fiscal productions for many years. I also take the exception to the fact that you have this ongoing padding exercise going on, despite all the cries I've used over the last seven years, it's still going on. The one thing that I wasn't very clear about is that when I looked into the report and found the irregularities and the consistency of these irregularities across a wide range of MDAs, I started wondering, does this have anything to do with the so-called constituency budgets? This audit exposes the weakness in Nigeria's budgetary process and the inability of government agencies in very fine budgetary allocations to avoid sharp practices and wastage of funds. I think when we first have to look at the budget office, there seems to be no audited review of the budget that is sent from the ministries, from the lining ministries to the budget office. Maybe in the midst of us to meet that December deadline, we have not expanded capacity to be able to really check into the budget and say this is things missing. And this starts from the budget officers that are in residential ministries. All of the times, my lack of capacity to be able to properly put documents together or even be able to even write budget items in the structured way should be. In the wake of these revelations, Nigerians have called for political will from the Nigerian government that would ensure a padding free budget. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.