IMPACT OF BUDGET REFORMS ON BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION IN NIGERIA


IMPACT OF BUDGET REFORMS ON BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION IN NIGERIA 

   

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

According to Abdullahi (2007), a government budget is a political and administrative instruments by which the executive and legislative bodies endeavour to allocate scarce resources among the various organs of government either at state levels or federal level. It is basically a tool for selecting a particular mix of public and private goods and services. In the public sector, budget performs the same allocative functions that the price mechanism performs in the private sector (Abdullahi, 2011).

The budgetary reforms objectives of the federal government of Nigeria adopted in 1999 was aimed at reducing the excessive share of the budget being allocated to the public service by way of personnel and overhead costs (estimated at over 60%), reducing the cost of governance in general, improving resource management by curtailing wasteful expenditure and increasing the level of productivity and efficiency through budget discipline. Paradoxically, the government expenditure has lost its objective as it becomes more concerned with recurrent expenditure and less concerned with capital expenditure (Ige, 2004). The habits of contractors making remobilization claims before reviving abandoned projects also contributed to high cost of governance and poor budget implementation in Nigeria. The result of this, was that large sums of money were released and the economy overheated with cheap money resulting in lack of any real progress in project implementation (Nzewi, 2011). In terms of ensuring good budget implementation in Nigeria, public officers in Ministries and extra ministerial departments are yet to imbibe the culture of incurring expenditures only for essential purposes, in order to control costs. Public officers instead see government resources (money) as a “national cake” (Abubarkar, 1999). Budget failure is not new in Nigeria and it cannot be blamed on the global economic crisis experienced in 2008-2009. The reason June be that the executives both at the federal and state levels have often diverted public funds into their personal foreign and local banks accounts.

A budget is also a tool for management direction and control of the work which an agency or department plans to do. A budget has four characteristics; equilibrium, comprehensive, unity, periodicity (Abdullahi, 2011). In Nigeria, budget implementation has been a major issue of concern. Issue of poor implementation has constrained achievement of most spelt-out development goals and objectives. This are manifested in many abandoned development projects. Poor implementation has also made execution a weak link in the budget process. 

According to Abogun&Fagbemi (2011), challenges to the full implementation of the annual Federal Government Budget has been of major concern to the Federal Government in recent years. This necessitated the Government implementing several policies aimed at improving on its revenue generation and collection, and spending effectiveness and efficiencies. In this regard, the Government through the Federal Ministry of Finance/Budget Office of the Federation has been engaging key stakeholders to workout optimal budget implementation strategies. These included engagements through Workshops (including “Strengthening budget implementation for enhanced project execution &service delivery”; and “Enhancing Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) generation, collection & remittance system in the federal public service”.

Budget reforms involve making changes to the ways and manner in which the budget is formulated, implemented and evaluated for the purpose of facilitating effectiveness, efficiency and economy (World Bank, 2011). It is about restructuring the process and/or management of a nation’s budgeting system in order to improve its feasibility as a fiscal policy vehicle. By implication, therefore, budget reforms must have direct impact on the level of implementation, otherwise it would be unnecessary.

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The main objective of this study is to analyze the impact of budget reforms on budget implementation in Nigeria. 

The budget process in Nigeria before 2005 had been facing numerous challenges and had come under different reforms from one government to another. The main challenges have been lack  of political will and commitment to abide by stipulated rules and budget guidelines; inability to develop a macro-economic framework for budget formulation and ambiguities in the roles of various agencies involved in the formulation and monitoring of budgets; periodic changing of budget line items classifications, which inhibited the formulation and monitoring of the budget. This has continued to affect budget implementation. All these has made it necessary to determine the influence of the reforms on implementation which is being focused upon in this study.

1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The following are the objectives of this study:

1. To examine the impact of budget reforms on budget implementation in Nigeria.

2. To examine the trends of budget reforms and other budget policy considering their benefits.

3. To determine how budget implementation can be enhanced in Nigeria.

1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS

1. What is the impact of budget reforms on budget implementation in Nigeria?

2. What are the trends of budget reforms and other budget policy considering their benefits?

3. How can budget implementation be enhanced in Nigeria?

1.5 HYPOTHESIS

HO: There is no significant relationship between budget reforms and budget implementation in Nigeria.

HA: There is significant relationship between budget reforms and budget implementation in Nigeria.

1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The following are the significance of this study:

1. In the light of growing importance of ensuring that budgetary provisions matches with the outcomes, this study will provide some useful information for all the tiers of government and non-governmental organizations who make use of budget in Nigeria.

2. This research will be a contribution to the body of literature in the area of the effect of personality trait on student’s academic performance, thereby constituting the empirical literature for future research in the subject area.

1.7 SCOPE/LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

This study will cover the relationship between budget reforms and budget implementation in Nigeria

LIMITATION OF STUDY

Financial constraint- Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection (internet, questionnaire and interview).

Time constraint- The researcher will simultaneously engage in this study with other academic work. This consequently will cut down on the time devoted for the research work

REFERENCES

Abdullahi YS.Public financial management in Nigeria.Principles, practices and issues.Primer Education Institute, Abuja; 2007.

Abdullahi YS.Public budget and budgetary control in Nigeria.Journal of Business and Organisational Development. 2011;3.

Ige CS. Review and appraisal of 2003 budget and economic performance.Central Bank of Nigeria. 2004;28(2).

Nzewi UC. A survey of budget practice of companies in Nigeria, the case of microfinance Banks in Anambra State. A Quarterly Journal of Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN). 2011;19:4.

Abubakar A. Budget of realism.Budget Address.Central Bank of Nigeria.1999; 24(1).

Abogun S, Fagbemi TO. The global debate on budgeting, empirical evidence from Nigeria.International Business Research. 2011;4(4).

World Bank. Honduras public expenditure management for poverty reduction and fiscal sustainability: Latin America and the Caribbean Region. Poverty Reduction and economic Sector Management Unit.Report, No. 22070; 2011.Available:http//wwwwds. worldbankorg/external/default/WDSC ontentServer/WDSP/IB/2001/08/29/000094946_0108070401001/Rendered/PDF/multi0page.pdf(Retrieved on September 21, 2013)

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