The Oyo State Government has rejected a report launched by a non-governmental organisation (NGO), the State Budget Transparency Survey, which placed the state as the least-performing state of the federation on the ladder of online availability of budget documents for the year 2020.
The State Government, which made its position known in a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Taiwo Adisa, insisted that the state’s budget information was, indeed, published on the state’s website in line with the open and transparent government being run by Governor Seyi Makinde on https://oyostate.gov.ng/resources/.
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The statement noted that the negative rating was due to the inability of the survey sponsors to access the website at the time of verification as such a development should not amount to an indictment for the state, claiming that one of the researchers that carried out the work had confirmed that he was able to access the Oyo State Budget Information on the State’s website.
It however noted that the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, (NGF) and other transparency initiatives were able to access the State’s Budget Information easily, saying that the negative rating of the State was not a true representation as Oyo State is much better in terms of economic viability than the published reports.
