- Safiu Kehinde
The Socio-Economic Rights Accountability Project (SERAP) group has charged President Bola Tinubu and the Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), to publish the names of those indicted in the N6 trillion meant for the implementation of abandoned 13,777 projects under the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
SERAP urged the President and the AGF to comply with the November 10 court’s ruling which ordered the publication of the names as well as the NDDC forensic audit report submitted to the Federal Government in 2021.
The organisation made the call in a post shared on its official X handle on Sunday.
SERAP warned that the FG’s continued failure to acknowledge the judgemtent will result to mockery of the country’s legal processes.
The post read; “We’ve urged Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice to immediately enforce the judgment compelling and directing him and president Bola Tinubu to widely publish the names of those indicted in the alleged misappropriation of N6 trillion meant to implement the abandoned 13,777 projects , and in the running of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) between 2000 and 2019.
“The judgment was delivered on Monday 10 November by Hon. Justice Gladys Olotu following a Freedom of Information suit number: FHC/ABJ/CS/1360/2021, brought by SERAP.
“The court also ordered Mr Fagbemi and the president to publish and make available to the public the NDDC forensic audit report submitted to the federal government on September 2, 2021.
“The continuing failure and/or refusal to publicly acknowledge the judgment and immediately enforce it makes a mockery of the country’s legal and judicial processes and the rule of law.”