SERAP Wants Fresh Missing N4.1bn National Assembly Funds Probed
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has demanded probe of a fresh missing N4.1 billion funds belonging to the National Assembly.
According to available information, the development, as revealed by an audited report from the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation, came to be in 2016.
In a letter dated May 15 and signed by its Deputy Director Kolawole Oluwadare the organization called on the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila to urgently launch an investigation into the alleged “missing, misappropriated, diverted or stolen, as documented in the 2016 audited report by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation.”
Copied in the letter were Abukabar Malami, Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice; Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC); Abdulrasheed Bawa, Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC); and chairmen of the Public Accounts Committees of the National Assembly.
