What has the IMF found about government spending in Nigeria?
The IMF's Article IV consultation found ₦8.8 trillion in unrecorded public expenditure, and the figures are not in dispute. I believe a government that governs in secret spends in secret, and a government that spends in secret does not govern, it plunders. I am determined that we, as citizens and institutions, summon the collective will to demand accountability, so this does not become the accepted, unremarkable condition of governance in Nigeria.
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A government that governs in secret spends in secret. A government that spends in secret does not govern, it plunders. The Tinubu administration has been exposed, not by its political opponents and not by partisan advocacy, but by the International Monetary Fund, the most authoritative multilateral financial institution in the world, whose Article IV consultations carry the full weight of international economic credibility. The evidence is on the record. The figures are not in dispute.
The only question that now confronts every Nigerian citizen, every elected representative, and every democratic institution in this republic is whether we will summon the collective will to demand accountability, or whether we will allow ₦8.8 trillion in unrecorded public expenditure, built on the same architecture of fiscal concealment that defined Lagos under Tinubu to become the accepted, unremarkable condition of governance in Nigeria.