SERAP Sues 36 Governors, Wike ‘Over Failure To Account For Trillion Of FAAC Allocations’

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued the 36 state governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, over their failure to account for the spending of trillions of Federation Account Allocation Committee FAAC allocations collected by their states and the FCT since 1999.”

In the lawsuit titled FHC/ABJ/CS/666/2024 filed last Friday at the Federal High Court, Abuja, SERAP is asking the court to “direct and compel the governors and Mr Wike to publish spending details of the FAAC allocations collected by their states and the FCT since 1999 including the list and locations of projects executed with the money.”

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In their suit, SERAP said: “Nigerians ought to know in what manner public funds including FAAC allocations, are spent by the governors and FCT minister,” a Sunday statement by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, read.

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“Opacity in the spending of the FAAC allocations collected by the governors and Mr Wike would continue to have negative impacts on the fundamental interests of the citizens.

“Trillions of FAAC allocations received by Nigeria’s 36 states and the FCT have allegedly gone down the drain. The resulting human costs directly threaten the human rights of socially and economically vulnerable Nigerians.”