Nigeria: FOI Request: SERAP Sues Okonjo-Iweala Over Missing N30 Trillion

A civil society organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a suit before the Federal High Court in Lagos against the minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for allegedly failing to provide information about how the alleged missing N30trillion was spent.

SERAP in the suit, which is sequence to a Freedom of Information request made by SERAP to Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala dated 2nd February 2015, argued that the minister “As trustee of public funds has a legal duty to render account on the missing N30tn to the beneficiaries (Nigerians) of the trust, if and when called upon to do so.”

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