Ekiti State 7th Assembly Transparency Baseline Report

This baseline assessment examines legislative openness, citizen participation, data availability and data quality in the 7th Assembly of the Ekiti State House of Assembly (Ekiti House of Assembly) inaugurated on 6 June 2023. The report is a reference document for the Speaker and Clerk of the House, civil society partners, donors, and Ekiti citizens. The assessment is benchmarked against the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness, a framework endorsed by over 140 parliamentary monitoring organisations worldwide and used by parliamentary monitoring groups, researchers, and the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) in Nigerian sub-national openness work.

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The 7th Ekiti State House of Assembly has presided over a period of measurable progress on “digital surface” transparency through the integration of livestreaming, electronic voting, and an active website in its legislative business, resulting in a Presidential ICT Integration Award in 2024, set against a backdrop of significant gaps in the substantive disclosures most associated with parliamentary openness. As a whole, the state itself has performed strongly on cross-cutting transparency indices (BudgIT Q1- Q4 2025, GATI 2025, the 2023 Transparency and Integrity Index); however, those rankings are predominantly based on executive-branch indicators. Sub-national legislatures sit largely outside the frame.

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Why this report?

Evaluated on the specific principles of the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness (2012), launched by parliamentary monitoring organisations (Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations (PMOs)) to promote transparency, citizen engagement, and accountability in legislatures, the report outlines standards for publishing parliamentary data such as votes, committee hearings, and draft legislation, in open, accessible formats, emphasising that such information should be publicly available to citizens.

What we aim to address

With this scorecard, the 7th Assembly stands at a useful inflexion point: the institutional appetite for openness is visible, the digital plumbing is being built, and the most consequential next move is no longer a hardware question but a documentary one, the systematic publication of bills, Hansard, Order Papers, Votes and Proceedings, committee reports, and member records. The report provides 15 recommendations to support that transition.

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