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If passed, the Law would “unduly restrict the rights to freedom of expression and privacy.”
This is contained in a statement issued by the organisation’s lawyers, Kolawole Oluwadare and Valentina Adegoke.
Recall that FG recently disbursed N2 billion out of the N5 billion palliative package to each State of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to address the impact of the removal of fuel subsidy.
The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has reacted to the call by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on President Bola Tinubu to probe the $15bn and N200bn missing oil revenues, insisting that the President must suspend the top management team of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) for effective investigation.
SERAP recalled that the Federal Government recently disbursed N2 billion out of the N5 billion palliative package for each state of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to address the impact of the removal of fuel subsidy.
SERAP urged him “to publicly instruct the officials in the presidential villa to allow journalists and media houses to freely do their job and discharge their constitutional duty of holding those in power to account.”
SERAP urged Tinubu to “instruct the former governors to immediately return any pension and allowances that they may have collected since leaving office to the public treasury.”
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, over “the unlawful plan to spend N40bn on 465 exotic and bulletproof cars for members and principal officials, and N70bn as ‘palliatives’ for new members.”
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over “the failure to publish spending details of about N400bn so far saved as a result of the removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly called petrol.”
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over its failure to delete the patently unlawful provisions in the Bank “(Customer Due Diligence) Regulations directing banks to obtain information on customers’ social media handles for the purpose of identification.”
SERAP urged them to “repeal the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Act to reduce the budget for the National Assembly NASS by N110bn, reflect the current economic realities in the country and address the impact of the removal of fuel subsidy on the over 137 million poor Nigerians.”
SERAP in a press release signed Sunday by its Deputy Director, Kokawole Oluwadare also urged him to “withdraw the Circular number FPR/DIR/PUB/CIR/007/076 of 20 June 2023 mandating banks and other financial institutions to implement and comply with the unlawful mandatory provisions on customers’ social media handles in the CBN Regulations.”
The suit followed the grim allegations documented by the Auditor-General of the Federation in the 2016 and 2019 annual reports that the public funds are missing.
SERAP urges Malpass to reopen a discussion on the reportedly approved $800m loan with the incoming administration to clarify the details on the rationale and use of the loan because the term of office of the government of President Muhammadu Buhari ends in May 2023.
SERAP in a press statement signed by its Deputy Director, Kokawole Oluwadare recalled that Justice Oguntoyinbo of the Federal High Court, Lagos had in November 2019 ordered the Federal Government to “recover life pensions collected by former governors serving as Ministers and members of the National Assembly.”
SERAP made the demand in an open letter dated April 15, 2023, signed by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare
The organization made the call in a press release signed Sunday by its Deputy Director, Kokawole Oluwadare.
Joined in the suit by the rights group as Defendant is Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture.
The NBC had last week threatened to revoke the licenses of broadcast stations and shut them down “if they continue to allow unpatriotic individuals on their platforms to make utterances that are subversive, hateful, and inciting, and negative conversations particularly in the post-2023 Presidential Election.”