Nigeria: FOI - SERAP Challenges Sanusi On Policy Details

16 January 2012

A civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a request to the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, to provide it with documents pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FoI) on the systemic corruption on fuel subsidy to enable it petition the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for the perpetrators to be prosecuted.

In the petition dated January 15, 2012 and signed by SERAP Executive Director Adetokunbo Mumuni, the organisation hailed Sanusi for recommending that those involved in the fuel subsidy scam to the detriment of millions of Nigerians should be arrested and prosecuted by the appropriate authorities.

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