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Updated January 24, 2021
SERAP wants Humanitarian Affairs Minister, Sadiya Umar-Farouk (pictured left), to provide more information about a plan she announced last week.
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadia Umar-Farouk to publish details of the proposed payments of N729bn to 24.3 million poor Nigerians for six months.
The non-governmental organisation also wants the minister to provide details about the mechanisms and logistics for the payments, list of beneficiaries, how they have been selected, projected payments per state, and whether the payments will be made in cash, through Bank Verification Numbers or other means.
Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla,
has been arraigned in court by the Independent Corrupt Practices and
Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), on allegation of offences
bordering on fraud.
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Apo, for allegedly forging
an O’ Level certificate, was also charged alongside his Special Adviser
on Protocol, Aliyu Ibrahim and the Managing Director of ABR Global
Petroleum Resources Limited, Daniel Omughele, for allegation of
diverting N19.9 million meant for the furnishing of SPIP’s office.
ICPC in a 10-count charge accused the former SPIP boss of knowingly
presenting a fake result with a credit pass in English Literature to the