Lawsuit filed against Tinubu, AGF over missing Ministry funds

Lawsuit filed against Tinubu, AGF over missing Ministry funds

The Financial Privileges and Responsibility Venture (SERAP) has recorded a claim against President Bola Tinubu for purportedly neglecting to educate the Principal legal officer of the League and Pastor of Equity, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), to team up with hostile to defilement organizations in researching the supposed fumble, redirection, or burglary of over ₦57 billion openly assets from the Government Service of Compassionate Undertakings and Neediness Easing in 2021.

The claims depend on the 2021 review report from the Workplace of the Inspector General of the Organization, which revealed huge monetary abnormalities.

The suit, recorded last Friday at the Government High Court in Lagos (suit number FHC/L/MISC/876/2024), records Fagbemi as a respondent.

SERAP is requesting that the court force President Tinubu to coordinate Fagbemi to send off an examination concerning the supposed abuse of assets, indict those viewed as dependable, and recuperate the missing cash where proof grants.

SERAP focused on the significance of responsibility, expressing, “Exploring and arraigning those liable for the missing ₦57 billion, and recuperating the assets, would end the exemption of culprits.” The association depicted the supposed wrongdoing as “taking from poor people” and featured the public interest in guaranteeing equity.

The 2021 review report uncovered various instances of monetary botch inside the service, including:

Over ₦54 billion dispensed for allowances to Group C1 N-Power volunteers among August and December 2021, allegedly unaccounted for, as installments were not made straightforwardly to recipients.
Over ₦2.6 billion dispensed for the “local school taking care of program during Coronavirus,” purportedly unspent, with the program allegedly not carried out.
₦78 million reserved for a Coronavirus reaction overview, ₦39.5 million for “individual gifts,” and ₦400 million for payments to free screens, all hailed as absent or blundered.
Other hailed reserves incorporate ₦287 million paid to project workers without documentation and errors including ₦729 billion, as of now under legal audit.

SERAP’s lawful group, Kolawole Oluwadare and Oluwakemi Agunbiade, contended that conceding their reliefs would essentially check defilement in services, offices, and organizations (MDAs), while tending to Nigeria’s spending plan shortfall and obligation issues.

The gathering refered to established and global enemy of defilement commitments, asking the public authority to act to guarantee responsibility, compensation, and equity for Nigerians influenced by the abuse of public assets.

As indicated by reports, no conference date has been set for the situation.