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Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has criticized the National Assembly for allocating scandalous palliatives of N70 billion for 306 newly elected members to acquire exotic bullet proof vehicles
The Alliance on Surviving Covid-19 and Beyond (ASCAB) has threatened to sue the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission and National Assembly for contempt over N110 billion earmarked fuel-subsidy palliatives for lawmakers. The group, in a press statement dated July 16, 2023, and signed by its National Chair, Femi Falana (SAN), accused the National Assembly of breaching the Nigerian Constitution.
Out of sheer insensitivity coupled with impunity, the members of the National Assembly, regardless of political affiliation, conspired to breach the relevant provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 by padding the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 2023 to provide the so-called palliative of N70 billion for 306 newly elected members. While the…