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The Socio-Economic and Accountability Project (SERAP) has threatened to drag Nigeria before the Ecowas Court if the Tinubu Bola President failed to take action on the Forensic Audit Report at the Delta Niger Development Commission (NDDC) between 2000 and 2019.
The group urged Bola Tinubu President “to direct the Attorney General Federation and the Minister of Justice MR Lateef Fagbemi, San to immediately investigate the accusation that the high officials and politicians charged in the report prevented the publication”.
In a letter dated July 5, 2025 and signed by the Deputy Director of Collawole Oluwadare, the organization said: “While the audit report can make an uncomfortable reading for the officials and politicians who are charged, your government has a constitutional responsibility to publish it and act on recommendations and that they” will be grateful if the recommended size in the recommended 7 days. If we haven’t heard of news from you at that time, absorbing will take all the right legal actions before the Ecowas Court to force your government to fulfill our request for the public interest.
Absorption urges the President “to direct Fagbemi and the right anti-corruption institution to immediately identify those who are responsible for obstructing the release of the report and bringing them to court to obstruct justice.”
The absorption also urged him “to direct Fagbemi to immediately issue NDDC forensic reports and to mention and embarrass those who are responsible for alleged embezzlement of more than N6 trillion in NDDC, bringing them to court and restoring the results of corruption, and giving adequate compensation to the victims.”
SERAP said, “Forensic Audit Reports from NDDC can no longer be allowed to collect dust. Sustainable failure to issue audit reports damage public trust and trust, especially victims of corruption in Delta Niger who have been waiting too long for justice and accountability.”
Absorption also said, “Inhibiting the release of forensic audit reports or hiding it is a big and intentional effort to prevent, prevent and distort justice for corruption accusations at NDDC.”
The letter was read in part: “Inhibiting the release of the forensic audit report or hiding it, and postponing the implementation of the recommendation has enabled the suspect to avoid justice and reject access to justice for the victims.
“There is a valid public interest in issuing a full forensic audit report from a forensic audit on NDDC and naming and embarrassing those who are responsible for leaving reports to collect dust and take them to the court.
“Victims of large corruption in Delta Niger will lose confidence in public investigations about corruption if the audit report is not immediately issued and the recommendations are acting. The victims want to see what recommendations and progress have been made to make NDDC suitable for the purpose.
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“The failure to publish reports and fully implement its recommendations seems to show that forensic audits are not assigned to provide transparency and accountability, but only as a trick to delay and avoid it.
“Extraordinary delay in issuing this report is contrary to the 1999 Nigerian Constitution [as amended] and State International Anti -Corruption and Human Rights Obligations.
“Around N1.4 billion was reportedly approved for auditors who conducted NDDC forensic audits.
“The fact that the forensic audit conducted at public costs has collected dust on the official’s desk for several years to show the failure of the Buhari government to provide justice for the people of Delta Niger who are the main victims of alleged corruption in NDDC.
“Bring those suspected of being responsible for the large corruption documented in the NDDC forensic report and restoring the results of corruption will advance Nigeria’s rights to restitution, compensation and non-repetition and increase public confidence in the war against corruption.
“Audit reports lead to excellent evidence of Facies about large corruption and surprising impacts in Delta Niger. Nigeria has the right to find out the names of those who are responsible for obstructing the publication of the forensic audit report.
“Arrogant worry that regardless of the country’s very large oil wealth, the nigerians have usually gained little benefit from trillions of naira which are budgeted for socio-economic development in the region mainly because of a large large corruption, and the culture of the perpetrators.
“N6 trillion lost and more than 13,000 projects left behind in Delta Niger continue to have a negative impact on Nigerian human rights, damage their access to basic public goods and services, such as education, health care, and regular and unbroken electricity supply.
“Public schools are left destroyed and withered, and health care facilities in some parts of this region do not even have the most basic facilities.
“Using an audit report to really fight the corruption epidemic in NDDC, and control those who are charged with them will help reduce poverty, increase access to Nigerians in the region to basic public goods and services, and increase the ability of your government to fulfill their human rights and anti-corruption obligations.”
