By Angela Atabo
Connected Development (CODE), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) on Thursday said it saved the Federal Government more than N15billion by blocking leakages in funded projects in rural communities.
Mr Hamzat Lawal, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CODE made this known at a news conference to mark the group’s seventh year anniversary and to unveil the new brand of its “Follow The Money Initiative”.
According to Lawal, Follow The Money Initiative advocates and tracks government and international aid spending in health, water, sanitation hygiene and education across grassroots communities to ensure and promote open government and service delivery.
He said that apart from saving government N15 billion in seven years of its establishment, CODE had also tracked an estimate of 113.6 million dollars in budgeted sums for projects across 181 communities in more than 25 Nigerian states.
“We have improved more than four million…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
