MANAGING PUBLIC FUNDS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES OF AFRICA – NIGERIA.

Public fund means the Money or Finance that is not owned by an individual but is meant to be used to provide for the general public or citizens: basic amenities and infrastructures, if in the case of a state or Nation. Well, if we talk about Management, we are now making reference to how these public funds can be managed by an individual who is appointed or elected or made to use it for the general good of the general public.

Anyway, the writer have learned that despite of all that has been said and heard from these individuals whose Money is been used to make up public funds, yet, the people who manage them have not make out time to know exactly what is it to manage public funds very well.

Hmmm! What I mean to say here is that; Leaders, who manage public funds, do it, to their own benefits thereby putting off the common interest of the real owners of these funds – The Public.

It is not as if, am writing to criticize leaders, but it is just that I have learned In my many years of being alive that if the basic amenities and infrastructures are provided, for the public, with the use of public funds, then public funds can be said to have been used effectively. A leader who reads this article will be thinking that “what interest the writer as his basic amenities and infrastructures may not be the interest of others as what is loved by a Man may be hatred to another.” Yes! This may be true! As it “MAY!” 

 



I know that if I like Good Roads, Good Hospitals, Good Public Schools, Smile-Able Packages For Workers, Viable International Relationship, Stable Economy, other readers may want to add Tourism, and then put ETC, others in the public who would like to support and vote for my interest is not “MAY” be many but many.

A somebody, who reads this article and is one of the so-claimed, intelligent, may think like this: “is this all he know about basic amenities and infrastructures?” Know! Sometimes “etcetera” may have different meanings. In the same vein, public wants are too numerous and is insatiable, but if we take the Family as an example of a public, we can deduce: Food as one number in our here scale of preference, then: shelter, clothing, etcetera, can follow.

Well, the state and Nation has different definition to what a Family is defined, so scale of preference may not be the right word to look for but a flow chart that look like this: Good Food will aid Good Health, and if Health is seen as Wealth, this means Food here is made important. But fresh Foods are cultivated, processed and produced mainly where there is soil not cemented earths found in cities, and there is only a few thing that connects the cemented earths to fertilized soils – Good Roads.