Akwa Ibom State Government has published its second-quarter 2026 budget implementation report, but the three-page document leaves major gaps in its account of public spending.
Missing details, the BudgIT Foundation says, make it difficult for citizens to determine where trillions of naira received by the government were spent.
The finding places Akwa Ibom in a peculiar position: while 34 states published their Q2 2026 Budget Implementation Reports, BudgIT singled out Akwa Ibom for publishing a report that, despite being publicly available, contains “significant data gaps” that limit meaningful scrutiny of government expenditure.
In its report, Half-Year BIR Status and Comparative Insights 2026/2025, BudgIT said publishing a budget implementation report should not be treated as transparency if the information disclosed is incomplete or unusable.
“Publishing a BIR is not enough, but the data must be complete and usable,” BudgIT said.
