The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has kicked against plans by the National Assembly to spend forty-two billion naira on the renovation of the legislative complex in Abuja.
The new National Assembly renovation budget is five billion naira higher than what the lawmakers had budgeted in 2019, which SERAP and close to six hundred other groups and citizens had gone to court to challenge.
SERAP said it has concluded plans to file interim and interlocutory injunctions at the Federal High Court to stop the huge expenditure on renovation at a time the country was struggling with debt and poverty.
SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oludare, explained how they made the discovery as well as plans to counter the government during a telephone interview with Lasgidi FM News Desk.