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EKO HOT BLOG reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has been sued by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) for “failure to investigate claims that over N11 trillion intended to provide consistent energy supply since 1999 may have been stolen, mismanaged, or diverted into private pockets.”
As the energy grid has failed at least three times in five months and 130 times in seven years, Nigerian cities have been perpetually plunged into darkness.
In the suit number FHC/L/CS/1119/2022 filed a few days ago at the Federal High Court Lagos, SERAP is seeking “an order of mandamus to direct and compel Buhari to investigate how over N11 trillion meant to provide regular electricity supply has been allegedly squandered by governments since 1999.”
The organization wants “an order of mandamus to compel Buhari to ensure the prosecution of anyone suspected to be responsible for the missing electricity fund, as appropriate, and to ensure the tracing and full recovery of any missing public funds.”
According to SERAP, addressing the ongoing grid failure and increasing access to and affordability of energy in the nation will be accomplished by looking into claims of stolen N11 trillion in electricity payments, prosecuting suspected offenders, and recovering any missing public funds.
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Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami is included in the lawsuit as a respondent.
Kolawole Oluwadare and Ms. Adelanke Aremo, attorneys with SERAP, brought the lawsuit on behalf of the company.
The lawsuit’s hearing date has not yet been set, though.
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