Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information requests to President Muhammadu Buhari and 36 state governors urging them to “disclose details of proposed ‘security votes’ spending in your 2021 appropriation bills to ensure the security and welfare of Nigerians, and to explain the measures your governments are putting in place to prevent the misuse and embezzlement of public funds in the name of security votes.”

SERAP said: “In the wake of the abduction of over 300 students from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, and ongoing security challenges in several parts of the country, the time has come to demonstrate transparency and accountability in the spending of public funds meant to secure people’s lives and property.”

In the FoI requests dated 26 December, 2020 and signed by SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare, the organization said: “Disclosing details of spending as security votes for 2021 would serve to engage the Nigerian people in an honest conversation about the security challenges confronting the country, and what the federal and state governments are doing to respond to them. This is a legitimate public interest matter.”

SERAP also said: “While SERAP understands that authorities may keep certain matters of operational secrets from the people in the name of national security, there is no constitutional or legal basis to hide basic information on public spending from the people.”

SERAP expressed “concerns that the intense secrecy and lack of meaningful oversight of the government's spending of security votes have for many years contributed to mismanagement and large-scale corruption in the sector, as well as limited the ability of the people to hold high-ranking public officials to account for their constitutional responsibility to ensure the security and welfare of the people.”

According to SERAP: “Your government’s responsibility to guarantee and ensure the security and welfare of the Nigerian people is closely interlinked with your responsibility under Section 15(5) of the Nigerian Constitution 1999 [as amended] to abolish all corrupt practices and abuse of office. This imposes a fundamental obligation to promote transparency and accountability in security votes spending, and to remove opportunities for corruption.”

The FoI requests, read in part: “Nigerians have the right to know what the government is doing in their name. The framers of the Nigerian Constitution never contemplated opaque spending of public funds as security votes. Transparency and accountability would ensure that the policies and action that the government will pursue to guarantee the security of Nigerians are truly relevant and effective in keeping them safe.”

“We would be grateful if the requested information is provided to us within 7 days of the receipt and/or publication of this letter. If we have not heard from you by then, SERAP shall take all appropriate legal action under the Nigerian Constitution, the Freedom of Information Act, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights to compel you to comply with our request.”

“Successive governments have failed to effectively discharge their primary and constitutional responsibility to protect the lives and property of Nigerians. This is patently contrary to Section 14(2)(b) of the Nigerian Constitution, which provides that ‘the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government.’”

“Our requests are brought in the public interest, and in keeping with the requirements of the Nigerian Constitution, the country’s international human rights obligations including under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Nigeria has ratified both human rights treaties.”

“By the combined reading of the provisions of the Nigerian Constitution, Freedom of Information Act 2011, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, applicable throughout Nigeria, there are transparency obligations imposed on your government to disclose information to the public concerning your proposed security votes spending for 2021.”

“The Nigerian Constitution, Freedom of Information Act, and the human rights treaties rest on the principle that citizens should have access to information regarding their government's activities.”

CandidNotes:
I digress.

Feminism

I am not a feminist but I believe that IN THE WORKPLACE every gender should be treated equally and paid fairly. But in the home, a man is the incontestable HEAD. I have never seen a team with two Captains, at best it's a Senior and Junior Captain. In every sport, endeavour, religion, there's only one Leader. Even in the Trinity, there's God the Father, the Son and the Holyspirit but God the Father is the Head. The human family is a trinity itself comprising of the Father, Mother and the Children, the Father in this case is the Head. Attempting to have two Heads will only lead to conflict as the unit will constantly be pulled in two different directions. The mother will not be happy, the father will not be happy and the children will be raised in a toxic environment. Nevertheless, a man should treat his wife with love and kindness and the woman should respect and submit to her husband.

I have observed that the original feminists are HERMAPHRODITES and MASCULINE LESBIANS who feel like they are actually men but are trapped in female bodies (you need to live abroad to understand what I mean). Hence, they feel that they are being treated differently from their male counterparts and would like to get the same treatment. These "women" have more testosterone than estrogen, they regularly engage in the exact same professions as men: Military, Construction etc. Rather than be honest and ask for equal rights because they are "men" in and of themselves, they hide behind the cloak of ALL women thereby destroying the lives and homes of unsuspecting, regular women. Please note that Feminists are brainwashing you.

Red/Blue Pill and Simps

When you are done converting all the males around you to black women hating men (as is the current situation in the US) I hope you can guarantee/understand the following:

1. You will be lucky enough (LOL) to find a white woman to marry.
2. Your daughter from your white wife will favour her white and not her black side (Mikel Obi's daughters).
3. Your black daughters and sisters will get the red pill treatment from their boyfriends and husbands.
4. Your cousins and nieces etc will get the red pill treatment from every man they encounter because of the mindset you are promoting.
5. Your granddaughters will have it worse because the red pill treatment will even be worse than it currently is.
6. Find a way to make every female in your family WHITE otherwise they will all be single or get the red pill treatment since that is what black women deserve.

Good luck!

andrewmeddy8:
I smell FTC ,,,,, cos "e be tins


[s][s]this yeye serap go just dey talk anyhow without any action, one tin with naija be say all of sabi bark like a toothless bull dog[/s][/s]

Driedfish:
Meow meow.

Nigerian Leaders are useless.
What difference does it make? Buhari is still certificateless!!

Gokoyer0:
"The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) was created in 2004 and registered as a non-governmental, non-profit organization under Nigerian laws.

Recognising the unexplored potential of international human rights law for increasing transparency, accountability and protection of economic and social rights in Nigeria, SERAP was created to promote these principles and values. The organization aims to use human rights law to encourage the government and others to address developmental and human rights challenges such as corruption, poverty, inequality and discrimination."

CodeTemplar:
Nobody gives account again in Nigeria. ASUU will tell you their operations and expenses are so unique they cannot be accountable to any body or institution. Same pattern for military and other gov bodies.

AyoConduit:
That's how it should be done. More transparency.

Bluntemperor:


Bravo to SERAP,if they succeeded.
But the political template is so juicy that none of the Governors,the Presidency and even the Legislatures will give account of billions being collected as Security Votes or Constituency Projects votes,yet insecurity is everywhere.The first problem to tackle is the Lacunas in the 1999 Constitution which failed to state how much amount should be spent on Security by our rulers.
Only God can save Nigeria.

Gokoyer0:
"The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) was created in 2004 and registered as a non-governmental, non-profit organization under Nigerian laws.

Recognising the unexplored potential of international human rights law for increasing transparency, accountability and protection of economic and social rights in Nigeria, SERAP was created to promote these principles and values. The organization aims to use human rights law to encourage the government and others to address developmental and human rights challenges such as corruption, poverty, inequality and discrimination."