Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari “to cut the N26 billion presidency budget for the construction of the presidential wing at the state house medical center, local and foreign travels, meals and refreshments, ‘sitting allowance’, and ‘welfare package’, and to use some of the savings to address the growing level…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Abuja “to stop the Federal Government and the Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Muhammed over unlawful directive to all TV and radio stations in the country to suspend the use of Twitter. The suit followed the…
In the aftermath of the looting spree that ensued as a result of the protests across the country, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is set to commence the investigation of the sources of looted items. The commission said this is in response to increasing public demands on the Commission to…
Following reports of discovery of COVID-19 palliatives stored in warehouses in several states and carted away during the unrest across parts of the country, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has written a petition to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). The group asked the ICPC to “promptly, thoroughly, transparently…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has disclosed that it has spent N30,540,563,571.09, representing 84% of the N36.3 billion public funds and donations received to respond to COVID-19 between 1st April, 2020 and 31st July, 2020. This leaves a balance of N5.9 billion. This was disclosed by the Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr. Ahmed Idris,…
Speaker of House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has been lambasted for claiming budget padding is not a crime under the Nigerian law. The Speaker’s comment was faulted by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, in a statement released on Sunday. The group, through its executive director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, maintained that, “Budget padding in fact…
A group has petitioned the United Nations, asking the world body to quickly stop the National Assembly, especially the Senate from amending the Code of Conduct Bureau and Code of Conduct Tribunal Acts. The group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, addressed its petition to Professor Philip Alston, who is the UN Special Rapporteur on…