President Bola Tinubu is being sued for “missing subsidy payments” by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP).
The organization is asking for an investigation into claims that N3.1 trillion and $2.1 billion in fuel subsidy planned payments are missing.
The lawsuit was brought as a result of the grave claims that the public funds are missing, which were documented by the Auditor-General of the Federation in his 2016 and 2019 annual reports.
SERAP is requesting an order of mandamus to compel Tinubu to act in the lawsuit, number FHC/L/CS/1107/23, which was filed last Friday at the Federal High Court in Lagos.
It asks the President to order the anti-corruption organizations to look into government subsidy payments made since 1999, identify and bring to justice any suspected offenders, and locate any cash that may have gone missing.
The lawsuit claimed that the seized profits be utilized as consolation prizes to lessen the impact of the subsidy reduction on low-income Nigerians.
Misuse of public funds, according to the organization, is a “fundamental violation of anti-corruption laws and international obligations, including those under the UN Convention against Corruption, to which Nigeria is a party.”
The SERAP report said, “The Tinubu government has constitutional and international legal duties to investigate these claims and guarantee responsibility for these grave crimes against the Nigerian people.”