Asaba – DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has charged the Editors of various media houses in the country to ensure that they discharge the role properly as the watchdog of the society by monitoring the implementation of budgets, in order to achieve transparency and accountability in governance at all levels.
The governor who stated this on Saturday during an executive session of the ongoing 9th edition of Nigerian Guild of Editors conference in Asaba, he also lamented the high cost of governance which he attributed partly to numerous appointment of political appointees.
The governor made it clear that government’s budget is a public document that should be made available to the public to see and assess the level of its implementation, which he said, informed the Delta State government to print and circulate its 2013 Budget freely to individuals including participants at the conference.
He said, “budget should be a public document that people can have access to and hold government accountable to it. This is why we have printed and distributed our state budget to people including you all in this hall. You can also access our budget online at any of our websites.
I think we are the only one in the country to have done this. Government is accountable to the people in everything”.
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