Governors have been urged to embrace the Open Government Partnership improve governance in their states.
The Executive Director of the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD), Dr Otive Igbuzor gave the charge at the South-West OGP learning and sharing session organized by Partnership to Engage Reform and Learn (PELR), a programme of UK’s Department for International Development (DFID).
He explained that OGP is an international initiative meant to promote transparency, accountability, citizens’ participation and technology and innovation in governance.
Igbuzor said only seven states had signed in to the OGP out of the 36 states in Nigeria.
“OGP is an international mechanism introduced in 2011. Nigeria was formally admitted into OGP in July 2016. The National Action Plan was approved in December 2016 and the implementation started in January 2017. Kaduna state was the first state that signed in to OGP at the subnational level.”
“At the moment, we have seven states including Kano, Ebonyi, Anambra, Niger, Abia, Enugu and Kaduna that have signed in to OGP while Kogi, Jigawa and Bauchi have indicated their interest to sign join OGP. We urge all other states to embrace and sign in to the OGP”, Igbuzor said.
Also speaking, the Civil Society Adviser to the OGP National Secretariat, Mr Stanley Achonu, said signing in to OGP would attract many benefits to the states and aid good governance. He charged members of the civil society organizations and the media to encourage governors to sign in to the OGP.
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