In a statement on Tuesday by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the organization said: “We have seen a video footage apparently showing the use of lethal and excessive force by Nigerian security agents against peaceful protesters demanding the release of Sowore and Bakare as ordered by the court.
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent a Freedom of Information request to Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, asking her to “urgently provide information on the total amount of money paid to contractors from the $460 million loan obtained in 2010 from China to fund the apparently failed Abuja Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) contract, the loan which the Federal Government has continued to re-pay.”
In a statement on Wednesday by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the organization said: “Nigeria’s security agents and state governors should also immediately stop the nationwide campaign of arbitrary arrests against journalists, activists and protesters.
Justice Obiozor, a Professor of Law, sitting at the Federal High Court, Lagos, had in July delivered a judgment in a Freedom of Information suit number FHC/L/CS/105/19, brought by SERAP, ordering the Federal Government to disclose and publish the names of companies and the whereabouts of the contractors paid by successive governments to carry out electricity projects but disappeared with the money without executing any projects
The letter was dated August 23, 2019 and signed by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare,
While some put the exact cost of the project at $16 billion, others say it is $13.8 billion
SERAP also raised: “Concern over suppression of freedom of expression, attacks on journalists, bloggers, and human rights defenders by several state governments, as well as the intimidation and harassment of Amnesty International in Nigeria, including by a group of apparently paid protesters that continues to besiege the organization’s office in Abuja, preventing it from carrying out its activities, and giving the organization ultimatum to leave Nigeria.”
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged the remaining 35 state governors in Nigeria to emulate the shining example of Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, who recently openly declared his assets by publishing without further delay the full details of their asset declarations submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged all former Governors now in the ninth Senate to “publicly commit to stop collecting pensions from their states while they serve as senators, return ‘pensions’ already collected to the public treasury, and push for the abolition of double emoluments laws for former governors and deputies in their states.”
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has strongly condemned the harassment, repression and arbitrary arrests by Nigerian law enforcement and security agents of anti-rape activists who protested peacefully on Sunday outside the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Abuja.
CCB’s response followed a FOI request by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project in April
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged President Mohamadu Buhari to make every day of his second tenure in office a Rule of Law day.
The Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission, Tony Ojukwu, has said that corruption is at the root of under-development and human rights violations in Nigeria.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged the “leadership and management of the National Assembly to immediately withdraw the repressive media accreditation guidelines or face legal action.”
The Governor of Nasarawa State, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura. has responded to a Freedom of Information request by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project.
This development was disclosed on Sunday in a statement by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare
The request was dated April 5, 2019
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to “immediately refer to the International Criminal Court pursuant to article 13 of the Rome Statute to which Nigeria is a state party, all allegations of election-related violence, intimidation and killings between 1999 and 2019 for investigation and prosecution”.