Follow The Money, a project run by Connected Development (CODE), was in Gutsau Zamfara state, to engage Civil Society Organizations (CSO), journalists and the government on a two days training at Zakat Endowment Board on the use of ‘Data’ from ‘The School Of Data’.

Led by Oludotun Babayemi, a co-founder of CODE and a member of the School Of Data, the participants were taught on how to track government funds allocated to education to encourage transparency in the system at both state and federal levels and the challenges encountered in trying to track funds.

While sharing his experience at the training, Mr Joels T. Abaver JP, the president of non-indigenes in Zamfara state and the Executive Director of the Christian Voice Initiative and Awareness of Nigeria, said, “We are beginning to develop a very good mind set on what tracking of budget is all about and I’m glad to be here as I have learnt a lot on budget.”