FG DRAGGED TO COURT OVER COVID-19 PALLIATIVES

      The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal high court in Abuja to compel the Federal government and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to publish the names of Nigerians who have so far benefited from COVID-19 palliatives.

    The non-governmental organization in a law suit is demanding for the government to disclose spending details of public funds and private sector donations to provide socio-economic benefits to the country's porest and most vulnerable people.
      SERAP argued that the minister of minister of humanitarian affairs,disasters management and social development,Sadiq Umar-Farouk and the CBN governor are bound by the freedom of information (FOL),who have so far benefited from the COVID-19 funds.

Credits:
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