Twenty-four states have enacted fiscal responsibility law to instill financial discipline in governance and curb corruption, the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) has said.
The commission announced this yesterday in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, at a Northeast zonal workshop it organised for states in the region.
The FRC is the Federal Government agency charged with encouraging prudence at all levels of government across the country.
FRC Executive Chairman Victor Muruako told participants at the occasion, tagged: Awareness and Sensitisation Workshop on Transparency and Accountability, that a number of the 24 states with fiscal responsibility law have established an agency to give teeth to the law.
The chairman hailed Adamawa State for being one of the states operating the law and having an implementing agency.
He noted that in the current circumstance, when the whole world is experiencing trials, good practice in fiscal governance is most needed at all levels.
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Muruako stressed that through the workshop, the FRC hoped “to prepare states to further align with Federal Government’s fiscal management framework as the nation braces for an uncertain future”.
Addressing reporters on the sidelines of the workshop, the FRC chairman regretted that many states with the fiscal responsibility law and agency were not implementing the law.
He said: “We are here (at the workshop) to encourage states that are yet to establish the fiscal responsibility law to do so. Even some states that have the law are yet to establish the fiscal responsibility agency.
“Some of them that have the agency are not allowing them to work. We want to encourage their excellencies (governors) to see such institutions as support for them, to help them to make achievements for their states, for their people.”