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.”
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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.”
SERAP also urged Biden to “use the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to block or revoke the visas of anyone suspected to be responsible for cases of intimidation, harassment and violence during the elections, and to impose asset freezes and property sanctions on them and their families.”
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and Central Bank of Nigeria are Defendants.
The call is contained in a press release signed by SERAP Deputy Director, Kokawole Oluwadare
SERAP also urged him to “direct Mr Usman Baba and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN to name and shame any politician and other perpetrators of election-related intimidation, harassment, and violence, and to ensure that they are promptly brought to justice.”
The organization, alongside is demanding for probe on the spending of public funds as ‘investments and bailouts’ to DisCos and GenCos since 2005.”
The call is contained in a statement issued Sunday by the SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare.
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over “the failure to thoroughly, effectively…
This is contained in a press statement signed Sunday by SERAP Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare
SERAP also urged him “to ensure the findings of any such investigation are widely published, and suspected perpetrators of corruption, and mismanagement of public funds meant to take care of the poor should face prosecution as appropriate, if there is sufficient evidence, and any stolen public funds should be recovered.”
SERAP is urging him to “ensure that the perpetrators and their sponsors are named and shamed, and promptly brought to justice, regardless of their political affiliations.”
The demand to the presidential candidate for the February 23, 2022 poll, was made in an Open Letter to them.
SERAP also urged Buhari to “publicly instruct the Nigeria police to facilitate the right of every Nigerian to participate on an equal basis in the political process in any part of the country, and to ensure that the police is not used by state governors to target supporters of opposition parties and those holding differing political views.”
Joined as a claimant in the matter is the Minster of Education, with the President of ASUU as sole defendant.
The Agency said the figure was 75 percent of 30,000 people who died in 2021 in the state due to the bad environment.
Joined in the suit as Defendant is Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture.