In a statement on Tuesday, SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, said: “It’s a huge relief that Sowore will be freed and can finally return to his family and journalism work.
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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.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an open letter to Soyata Maiga, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the commission’s members requesting them “to urgently submit a case on the escalating xenophobic attacks against Nigerians and other African citizens in South Africa to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and to seek an effective remedy and reparation for Nigerian victims.”
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 petitioned Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, and Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, urging them to “jointly and urgently invite Senators Godswill Akpabio and Isa Misau for interrogation and further questioning over alleged diversion of constituency projects.”
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 sent a petition to Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court, urging her to use her “good offices to investigate whether the problem of out-of-school children in Nigeria, and the failure of the Nigerian authorities over the years to address it amount to violence against children and crimes against humanity within the jurisdiction of the ICC.”
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has condemned “the harassment, intimidation and unfair treatment of the former acting Chief Judge of Kebbi State, Elizabeth Karatu, who was barred from gaining access to her courtroom to deliver certain judgment by an official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, who claimed he was acting based on the directive given to him by the management.”
The judgment was delivered on Friday by Justice Chuka Austine Obiozor, a Professor of Law, following a Freedom of Information suit number FHC/L/CS/105/19 brought by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project.
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.
More than 1,500 concerned Nigerians, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, BudgIT and Enough is Enough Nigeria have filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court to “restrain, prevent and stop the National Assembly Service Commission from paying the incoming members of the 9th National Assembly individually and/or collectively over N4.68 billion as ‘welcome package.’”
The Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board has responded to a Freedom of Information request by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, disclosing how “the government spent Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) funds on primary school education between 2015 and 2019 including spending N45 million in one week to train one thousand primary school teachers.”
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 filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court to: “compel governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa of Delta State to explain the disparity between budgetary allocations to primary education and the reality that several of the around 1,124 primary schools across the State are in shambles, and with very poor teaching facilities.”
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.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an open letter to Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, urging him to use his good offices and position to “publicly reject life pensions and brand-new vehicles for lawmakers bill passed by the Kano State House of Assembly, and to prevail on the members of the House to immediately drop the bill, and to honour their fiduciary duties imposed by the Constitution of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and Nigeria’s international anti-corruption obligations.”
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an open letter to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State urging him to use his “good offices as trustee of the state’s resources, and consistent with your constitutional oath of office, to reject the proposed life pension bill by the leader of the House of Assembly Peter Akpe, and to prevail upon the House to immediately withdraw the self-serving bill.”