Tofowomo made the call at the end of a seven-day solar power empowerment programme, as one of his 2020 constituency projects, for more than 100 youth in Ondo South Senatorial District in Ile-Oluji on Sunday.
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent Freedom of Information requests to the 36 state governors, urging them to “urgently provide information on spending details on COVID-19 in your state, and to immediately redirect public funds budgeted for security votes and life pensions for former governors from the state to invest in and improve public healthcare facilities and access to quality education.”
The organization said: “If there is relevant and sufficient admissible evidence, for former governors to face prosecution and serving governors to be prosecuted at the expiration of their tenure as governors.”
Justice Adamu Bello threw out the suit while delivering judgment in a case filed by a constitutional lawyer, Chief Nkereuwem Akpan, against the governors and the FCT minister in 2010