gbainde:

If you feel the 2012Budget is wasteful, you can trim it here , as we forward reports to govt, yourbudgit.com/2012cut

I like the site. It is sort of what I have been thinking of for a while. Shoot!!! Maybe I should get to working on mine cause we need to get people looking at such things.

Kobojunkie:

Money untraceable? So you are saying it is impossible to trace recurrent expenditure? How do? Do you not pay even that to some entity, individual? I really don't understand how you could say that recurrent expenditure is untraceable.

Also, am I to assume you also believe the budget is all recurrent? But more interested am in your explaination for the post you have above there stating that there is no way to trace recurrent expenditure.

I am not actually saying is not traceable, but it will be very very difficult to. Unlike capital expenditure, its more visible and easier to notice if the said expenditures were actually expended on the projects they were meant for.
How exactly will you trace ten billion naira said to be spent on feeding?

J12:

I am not actually saying is not traceable, but it will be very very difficult to. Unlike capital expenditure, its more visible and easier to notice if the said expenditures were actually expended on the projects they were meant for.
How exactly will you trace ten billion naira said to be spent on feeding?

Well, Receipts, a very good way to trace that sort of spending. Pay Stubs is another way of tracing recurrent. In fact, Recurrent maybe the easier to trace of the many options given these are options that do not vary much from year to year.

Receipts are very easy to forge, same with pay stubs. As long you cannot physically notice a change resulting from the payments, then it difficult.

J12:

Receipts are very easy to forge, same with pay stubs. As long you cannot physically notice a change resulting from the payments, then it difficult.

I don't think receipts and pay stubs are as easy to forge as you will like to belief. Especially if the receipts are from reputable organizations, who understand that they could be held liable in case of suspicions. Simple investigative snooping can snoop out forgers.

Pay stubs, forged?? I am not certain what you are trying to push here considering that is not the case, especially with Government agency. Even the FBI, in far away Washington, know who works for Nigerian government and who doesn't.

You know what, if you want to believe that it will be hard to trace government spending. I will choose not to argue it with you any further since after all this is Nigeria where everything seems impossible to a whole lot of people. I will rather go on believing that with the right minded Nigerians willing to do the job, nothing is, and we can trace every last kobo, if we want to.