Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group The Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group (NDEBUMOG) has lamented the exclusion of citizens and civil society organisations (CSOs) from participating in budget processes in spite of constitutional provisions for their inclusion. It noted that inputs and needs of communities were hardly captured in budgets, stressing that Federal and state governments were systematically closing the civic space, thereby, making it difficult and risky for citizens to demand accountability, good governance and respect for human rights. It stated this in a communiqué issued after a two-day advocacy roundtable on civic inclusion, budget monitoring, transparency, accountability, gender inclusion and alliance building organised by NDEBUMOG in collaboration with OXFAM in Akwa Ibom State.