A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday granted leave to the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project in a suit against President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President Ahmed Lawan, and Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila “over the failure to disclose details of allocations, disbursement and spending of an estimated N241.2 billion yearly as security votes between 1999 and 2019.”
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They told the News Agency of Nigeria that the process could only be sustained if public funds in trust were diligently utilised
His action is a direst response to the challenge posed to him by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, to make public what he gets as security vote and local government funds
Dogara spoke in Kaduna on Friday
However, some of the 2,073 respondents in a nationwide survey by the News Agency of Nigeria said that such provision should be stopped
Even as it conceded that the recent voluntary slash by 50 per cent in the salaries of the President and…