SERAP recalled that the Federal Government recently disbursed N2 billion out of the N5 billion palliative package for each state of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to address the impact of the removal of fuel subsidy.
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This is contained in a press statement signed Sunday by SERAP Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare
This is made public in a press statement signed Sunday by SERAP Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare.
SERAP call is contained in a press statement issued Sunday and signed by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare.
The body which made the call in a statement signed Sunday, by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare also gave FG seven days to take necessary action, failure to act will lead to considering appropriate legal action by it to ensure compliance to its “request in the public interest.”
This was disclosed on Sunday by SERAP’s deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare.
The request was contained in a letter dated April 17, 2021 and signed by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare.
The suit is coming in the wake of the controversy over Buhari’s travel to London for a “routine” medical check-up at a time the country’s resident doctors are on strike over unpaid salaries, upward review of hazard allowances, and COVID-19 care incentives, leaving millions of poor Nigerians without access to medical treatment.
The suit followed recent move by the Federal Government to take over and borrow unclaimed dividends and dormant account balances owned by Nigerians in any bank in the country.
The organisation is also urging him to “ensure the full recovery of any missing public funds, revealed in the 2017 annual audited report by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation.”
Joined in the suit as Defendants are the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), and the Corporate Affairs Commission.
The World Bank Board of Directors had last week approved $500 million “to help boost access to electricity in Nigeria and improve the performance of the electricity distribution companies in the country.”
The demand was contained in an open letter dated January 20, 2021 and signed by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, made public on Sunday.
SERAP also urged her to “explain the rationale for paying N5,000 to 24.3 million poor Nigerians, which translates to five-percent of the country’s budget of N13.6 trillion for 2021, and to clarify if this proposed spending is part of the N5.6 trillion budget deficit.”
The Finance Act, signed into law by Buhari last December, would allow the government to borrow unclaimed dividends and dormant account balances owned by Nigerians in any bank in the country.
SERAP said: “The Working Group should request the Nigerian authorities to withdraw the bogus charges against Mr Sowore and four other activists, and to immediately and unconditionally release them.”
SERAP said: “In the wake of the abduction of over 300 students from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, and ongoing security challenges in several parts of the country, the time has come to demonstrate transparency and accountability in the spending of public funds meant to secure people’s lives and property.”
The organization also urged him “to instruct Mr Pantami and Mr Abubakar to take concrete measures to promptly ensure that the NIMC is able to faithfully and effectively discharge its statutory functions to harmonize and integrate existing identification databases in government agencies into the National Identity Database, and to use the information to update SIM card registration.”
The Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation had last Thursday before the Senate Public Accounts Committee revealed that officials of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources spent N116 million to buy biros, letterhead and toners in one year, alleging “contravention of the Public Procurement Act 2017 by the Permanent Secretary.”
The advice was contained in a letter dated November 21, 2020 and signed by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, made available to the media on Sunday.