Absorbed, others dragged Tinubu to the Ecowas court because of the failure to issue NDDC reports

The Socio-Economic and Accountability Project (SERAP) and four Nigerians who care have filed a lawsuit against the Government of the Tinubu Bola President of the “failure to issue a forensic audit report conducted at the Delta Niger Development Commission (NDDC) suspected of accusing high-ranking officials and Niger politicians over Niger Niger for Niger Niger Niger Niger.

Following the accusation of large corruption, the late former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 ordered a forensic audit from the NDDC operation. Also, the Minister of Federal Capital Region (FCT), Nyesom New Wike -Newly accused that the wife of a former minister collected N48 billion for 12 months “to train Delta Niger women.”

The four Nigerians who care about the lawsuit are: Prince Taiwo Aiyedatiwa; Head of Jude Igbogifurotogu Pulemote; Ben Omietimi Tariye; and Princess Elizabeth Egbe.

In the ECW/CCJ/APP/25/25 lawsuit number submitted last Friday before the Ecowas Community Court in Abuja, the Plaintiff searched: “The declaration that the failure of the Nigerian government to issue NDDC forensic reports is the same as the fundamental violation of the country’s international human rights.”

The Plaintiff searched for “an order that directs and forced the Nigerian government to publish and ensure access to information to the NDDC forensic report that has been submitted to the government but is still shrouded in confidentiality.”

The plaintiff is also looking for “orders that direct and force the Nigerian government to adopt and ensure effective steps to overcome the transparency and accountability gaps in the expenditure of public funds budgeted for NDDC.”

In the lawsuit, the plaintiff argued that, “The Nigerian government has violated our rights to find out the truth about the accusations of corruption documented in the NDDC forensic report. Obstruction of the publication of the report to carry out the impunity and closure of the accusations documented in the report.”

The plaintiff also argues that, “implied in freedom of expression is the right of the public to open access to information and to find out what the government is doing on their behalf, without it the truth will misery and participate in the government will remain fragmented and illusion.”

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The plaintiff argues that, “The Nigerian government has failed and refused to publish NDDC forensic reports and failed to give reasons or reasons to hold reports from the plaintiff and the Nigerian plaintiff.”

According to the Plaintiff, “The Nigerian government has a legal obligation to guarantee and ensure transparency and access to information about NDDC forensic reports as a component of the right to find, accept, and provide information from all types.”

The lawsuit filed in the name of absorption and four Nigerians who cared about their lawyers, Kolawole Oluwadare, Kadinde Oyewumi and Andrew Nwankwo, were read in part: “There are public interests that lead to publications and disclosure of NDDC forensic reports.”

“The continuing failure of the Nigerian government to publish NDDC forensic reports denies the plaintiff’s ability to really study reports and ask for government accountability, as well as damage the rights of the law and violate the rights of other plaintiffs.”

“The information sought is not information classified for national security reasons, because the NDDC forensic report is related to the issue of transparency, accountability and human rights, which is covered in the African charter about human and community rights and international agreements on civil and political rights.”

“To guarantee the implementation of full and effective rights from access to information, state administration, including the Nigerian government must follow the principles of maximum disclosure and good faith.”

“The principle of maximum disclosure is the principle of guidelines for information rights, which are found in Article 9 of the African Charter regarding human and people’s rights and Article 19 International Agreements on Civil and Political Rights.”

No date set for the lawsuit session.