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.”
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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.”
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent a Freedom of Information request to Dr. Muhammed Isah, Chairman, Code of Conduct Bureau, urging him to use his “good offices and leadership position to urgently provide information on specific details of asset declarations submitted to the CCB by successive presidents and state governors since the return of democracy in 1999.”
There is prospect Nigerians keen on knowing the truth about specific names of contractors that allegedly collected money for electricity projects but failed to execute may soon have some answers as the Federal High Court in Lagos has given the go-ahead to the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in its suit seeking “an order for leave to apply for an order of mandamus compelling the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola SAN to disclose the names of the contractors.”
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project on Tuesday said that the level of corruption in Nigeria was still high in spite of the efforts of the Muhammadu Buhari Administration.
A new public survey released on Tuesday by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project reports high levels of corruption in public institutions in Nigeria for the past five years.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged “the governments of Lagos and Oyo states to “take immediate action to address the numerous ongoing human rights impacts of the deadly and catastrophic building collapse in their respective states, including by taking meaningful steps to avoid further damage to the human rights of the people affected.”
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has written to the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, promising “to refer the request for details of alleged contractors and companies that collected money for electricity projects and failed to executive any projects to the Ministry’s agencies for necessary action and appropriate response.”
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has dragged the federal government and state governments to ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over “the frequent and repressive application of the Cybercrime Act to harass, intimidate, arbitrarily arrest, detain, and unfairly prosecute anyone found publishing views or facts perceived to be critical of the government at the federal and state levels and government officials”.
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”.
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has responded to the Freedom of Information request by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, saying: “The Ministry has searched for the requested information on details of alleged contractors
The presidential candidate of KOWA Party, Sina Fagbenro-Byron, has vowed to “set up an Independent Body of Investigators with specific powers to reopen the alleged missing $16 billion meant for electricity projects during the government of former president Olusegun Obasanjo and all reports of corruption in the electricity sector and to ensure effective prosecution of corruption allegations in the sector if voted into power.”
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, over “failure to disclose specific names and details of contractors and companies that allegedly collected money for electricity projects but failed to execute any projects, starting from the return of democracy in 1999 to 2018”.
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an open petition to the Next-In-Rank to the Chairman of the National Judicial Council urging the NJC “to immediately take over from the Code of Conduct Tribunal the case of Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, with a view to setting up a committee to investigate the allegations of breach of constitutional asset declaration requirements against him”.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an open letter to major presidential candidates for Nigeria’s February 16, 2019 election, urging them to “publicly commit to revolutionary and innovative anti-corruption reforms in five key areas, such as security votes, power sector corruption, judicial corruption and removal of immunity for presidents, vice-presidents, state governors and deputy state governors.”
The organization said: “Mr Malami should then request Justice Onnoghen as the Chairman of the NJC to recuse himself, so that the next most senior justice at the Supreme Court can preside over the process and set up a panel to investigate the allegations against Justice Onnoghen to ensure fairness and justice in the matter.”
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent a Freedom of Information request to Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Minister of Power, Works and Housing, urging him to use his good offices and leadership position to “urgently provide information on specific