SERAP drags FG to UN for reducing education, health budgets

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has dragged the Federal Government before the United Nations over the plans to cut the budgetary allocation to education and health care in the cou

ntry.

SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oludare, said the petition was sent to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Koumbou Boly Barry; UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Dainius Puras; and the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Olivier De Schutter.SERAP accused the Nigerian authorities of “putting politicians’ allowances and comfort before citizens’ human rights.

“Nigeria’s budget deficits are caused by excessive expenditures on politicians’ allowances and mismanagement.

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