Democracy is a camouflage used by the political leaders to conceal their the main system of ruling which they practice. Have you never wondered that the same rulers who ruled during the military system are still the same leaders in the democratic system. What do you expect from them? They cant change from that system because it is what they first practiced and hidden beneath their mind and soul the military spirit still resides in them. I have seen videos of people voting and at the end of the vote the military men are the ones who comes to take the ballot boxes. Which it is not how its supposed to be.
The thing is most of this things are very common in Africa some Asian and Arabic countries,
If you ask me, ill say its a global problem no continent is exempted. We are only opportuned to notice that it happens a lot in Africa and other part of Asia. Countries with world power are guilty of it too and i wont be surprised that they shut their media to refrain from spreading information like this to not ruin the influence they have on other countries looking up to them.
As far as I know, democracy is just in lips, if there was such a thing, there are countries that are very rich in terms of natural resources, infact some state are very rich in terms of natural resources but the statutory allocation given to them looks like when you are gifting someone money, in democratic system where federal system of government is been practiced, this things don't happen but it is unfortunate that democracy has been humiliated to the extent that it's existence is just a mere talk to deceive the outside world from knowing the exact happening within the political class.
On a norms its should be the individual states that takes whatever is left after allocating their budget to the federal government and not the other way round. But these days you see the federal government rationing the budget for the individual state development so that there will be enough left for them to share at the federal level. I don't want to go in deeper though in reality, the sovereign leaders should not be trusted.