SERAP don sue Tinubu over ‘missing $2.1bn, N3.1trn subsidy payments’
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project SERAP don file lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu over “missing subsidy payments”.
Di organisation dey ask for investigation of di allegations so dat di $2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion wey dem budget as fuel subsidy payments go dey unaccounted for.
Also, di suit follow di allegations wey dey documented by di Auditor-General of di Federation for di 2016 and 2019 annual reports wey tok say di public funds don miss.
Inside di suit, number FHC/L/CS/1107/23 file last Friday for di Federal High Court for Lagos, SERAP dey find order of mandamus to compel Tinubu to act.
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Dem want make di President direct di anti-corruption agencies to investigate subsidy payments wey governments make since 1999, and dem want di names of di suspected perpetrators and dem wan recover di money wey don miss.
In addition, dem yarn say di money wey dem recover na hin dem go use as palliatives to address di impact of di subsidy removal on poor Nigerians, dis na wetin di suit want.
Di group yarn say di misuse of public funds na “fundamental breach of anti corruption laws and international obligations including under di UN Convention against Corruption.
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