The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari and the 36 state governors to provide specific information regarding the spending of public funds appropriated as security votes between 2011 and 2019.
In separate Freedom of Information requests sent to the president and the governors, SERAP is seeking to know if public funds meant to provide security and ensure the protection of the lives of Nigerians have been spent for that purpose.
In a statement by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, SERAP said it is concerned that rather than serving the citizens, the appropriation of public funds as security votes over the years would seem to serve high-ranking government officials at the federal and states levels.
SERAP noted that the most general purpose of State power is to provide security for citizens but that the growing level of insecurity and killings in Zamfara State and other parts of Nigeria suggest that successive governments have been unable to satisfactorily implement this fundamental constitutional commitment.
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