CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS FROWN AT NON-CHALLANCE OF STATES ON IMPLEMENTATION OF OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP
The South-West coordinator of the Coalition pointed out that, at the moment only seven States which include: Kano, Ebonyi, Anambra, Niger, Abia, Enugu and Kaduna have signed the partnership, stressing that it was unfortunate that in the South-West, none of the States have keyed into the partnership.
He said the clarion call becomes imperative for other States to embrace the partnership, explaining that this will no doubt demonstrate a minimum level of commitment to open government principles in four key areas of Fiscal Transparency, Access to Information, Income and Asset Disclosures, and Citizen Engagement.
Penpushing further reports that, the Director of Centre for Sustainable Development (CESDEV) Professor Olanrewaju Olaniyan earlier while declaring the workshop open said that it is high time that people should begin to monitor development process.
Meanwhile, the training was aimed primarily to equip participants with the skills and organizational capacity to conduct effective and innovative citizen’s engagement for social accountability.
