A federal court in Lagos has struck out a suit seeking to make the 36 state governors account for the security votes collected in their respective domains.
Muslim Hassan, a judge of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court, held that the court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the suit. He said the appropriate court is the respective state’s high courts.The judgment was delivered on May 4 but PREMIUM TIMES just obtained a copy of the document.Security votes are monthly allowance allocated to the 36 state governors to fund security services.
The suit at the federal high court was filed by Legal Defence and Assistance Project, Legal Resources Consortium, and Chino Obiagwu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. In their defence, counsel to the Akwa Ibom governor and the state house of assembly, Thelma Coco-Bassey, said the plaintiffs do not have the right to institute the action against the defendants.
The counsel for Ebonyi State, Ogbonna Ernest, said being that the state is not the federal government, an arm of it, or any of its agencies, the court lacks the jurisdiction to entertain the suit. He further argued that the funds being claimed by the plaintiff to have been misappropriated do not belong to the federal government or its agencies.
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