Budget Implementation and the Development of the Education Sector in Delta State, Nigeria. 2019-2023

Abstract A major component in improving economy has been the need to be transparent in the formulation and implementation of government budget. Thus, it has become a tradition in Nigeria for budget to be celebrated at levels government. In most cases, huge monetary figures are approved for capital and recurrent expenditures. The paper has the objectives to find out the extent the implementation of budgetary allocation has affected the development of the education sector in Delta State and to ascertain if budget repetition of projects affected budget implementation for the development of the education sector in Delta State. The paper is anchored on the elite theory. In the methodology, we made use of secondary source as our method of data collection and the analysis was through qualitative descriptive method of analysis. The finding on the extent allocated budgets are implementation in the education sector, was by a way of budgetary allocation for projects. it was discovered that there were many irregularities in the implementation of budget within the period of study, living the development in the education sector in Delta State as shadow of itself. Again, the budget repetition of project negatively affected the development of the education sector. We recommended that; adequate concern should be placed on implementation; the emphasis has been on allocation without adequate attention to implementation. Finally, previous documents on project allocation should be strictly previewed to avoid allocating funds to same projects.