SERAP Asks Court Of Appeal To Order Release Of Asset Declarations By Buhari, Osinbajo, Others
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has asked the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos to set aside a judgment of a Federal High Court and to order public disclosure of asset declaration details submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau by President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo, governors, their deputies, and other politicians since 1999.”
SERAP in the appeal filed last week contended that “The learned trial judge misinterpreted the provision and purport of paragraph 3[c], Third Schedule, Part 1 of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution . The judge did not consider that the Freedom of information was enacted by the National Assembly in 2011 to grant public access to public documents.
The appeal filed on SERAP’s behalf by its lawyers Kolawole Oluwadare, Opeyemi Owolabi and Adelanke Aremo, read in part: “The learned trial judge failed to determine whether the asset declaration forms kept in the records of the CCB are public documents. The judge failed to determine whether the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs whatever injury that the disclosure would cause the CCB and public officers.
SERAP is, therefore, seeking “an order allowing the Appeal, and setting aside the judgement of the Honourable Justice Muslim Hassan delivered on Monday, 11th May 2020.” SERAP is also seeking an “order of mandamus directing and compelling the CCB to immediately take cases of false asset declarations to the Code of Conduct Tribunal for the effective prosecution of suspects, and include banning the politicians involved from holding public offices for at least a period of 10 years and seeking a refund of stolen public funds as part of the reliefs to be sought before the Tribunal.
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