SERAP drags Nigeria's Health Ministry, NCDC to court over COVID-19 funds - Daily Post Nigeria

SERAP drags Nigeria’s Health Ministry, NCDC to court over COVID-19 funds

They were sued over alleged failure to account for the public funds and other resources so far spent and used to combat the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria.SERAP is seeking an order to compel the duo to publish details of the funds from federal, state governments and the private sector.

The suit followed SERAP’s Freedom of Information requests dated 27 March 2020 to the Minister of Health and the NCDC. “Yet, the Ministry of Health and the NCDC have failed and/or refused to disclose whether there is any collaborative work with the Ministry of Water Resources to provide vulnerable Nigerians with safe water, sanitation, and hygienic conditions.”The suit filed by SERAP lawyers, Kolawole Oluwadare, Atinuke Adejuyigbe, and Opeyemi Owolabi, relied the Freedom of Information Act 2011 and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights to which Nigeria is a state party.

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