SERAP Drags FG To UN Over Education, Health Budgets Cuts
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has dragged the Federal Government before the United Nations over the plans to slit the budgetary allocation to education and health care.The group, in its petition, also urged the UN to prevail upon the Federal Government to drop the plan to spdiscontinue N27bn on the renovation of the National Assembly complex.
SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oludare, assumed the petition was sent to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Ms. Koumbou Boly Barry; UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Mr Dainius Puras; and the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Mr Olivier De Schutter.
It said, “The budacquire cuts show failure to address the growing economic and social inequality in the country, and to genuinely address the consequences of Covid-19 on the poor and marginalised groups.
“Nigeria’s budacquire deficits are caused by excessive expenditures on politicians’ allowances and mismanagement.
“Nigerian authorities would only be able to commit to fiscal discipline if they prioritise cutting the allowances of lawmakers and the costs of governance in general, rather than cutting critical funding for healthcare and education.
“This would have been a more appropriate solution to addressing budacquire deficits, as this would increase the available resources for health care and education, which in turn would contribute to reducing socio-economic inequality.”
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