ACCOUNTABILITY raises its head again. How to we track the utilisation of the 50% vote released and ensure that it is been utilized for the purposes intended. Afterall, for over 55 years we have been releasing budget votes for some ministries that exceeded the total budgets of some European countries, and have nothing to show for it. Should each Federal ministry, state ministry and local government and parastatal not publish its intended targets and deadlines, completed targets together with details of contractors, costs comparism (budget & actual) and time frame and other records on a monthly basis so that for instance (example only) if Apapa Local government was to have repaired Rycroft road, and was alloted funds for that, the public could react immediately with disclaimers if the work was not done. It may sound like a lot of work but civil society would be involved in the nation building process. Maybe its time we police ourselves. I don’t know. I’m not an economic genius but something has to be done to ensure that monies given out are spent on what they are supposed to be spent on, and we the public for whom it is being spent must be able to see that it is being done.