and leadership positions to urgently provide information on specific details of spending of appropriated public funds as security votes between 2011 and 2019.”
SERAP said: “We are 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 all levels—federal and states. We are also concerned that the practice of security votes entrusts discretionary powers to spend huge public funds on certain elected public officials who may not have any idea of operational issues on security matters.
“The most general purpose of State power is to provide security for citizens and other residents and to enable them to lead a life that is meaningful to them. However, the growing level of insecurity, violence, kidnappings and killings in Zamfara State and other parts of Nigeria suggest that successive governments—at both federal and state levels—have been unwilling or unable to satisfactorily implement this fundamental constitutional commitment.
“SERAP believes that the Federal government and state governments ought to push for transparency and accountability in the spending of security votes both at the federal and state levels if any such funds are to be properly spent to promote and ensure sustainable peace and security for the people of Nigeria.”
“We note that the obligation to provide security and protect people’s rights to life, physical integrity, and liberty ought to be a shared responsibility of the federal and state governments, and not just for the federal government, as state governors also appropriate huge public funds each year as security votes. Many governors reportedly hide the security votes in their budgets as the funds are not expressly stated in their appropriation acts.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
Security votes is a classified issue for the need to know basis only.
Write write write enough of that take action
SERAP is an APC Motor park Boys residing in Lagos State
It's about time that the fraud called security vote is made transparent SERAPNigeria never relent on this.
If Serap push this further, you ll see some Governors saying NO openly.. walahi
Me think the request is in order. But extant law did not make mandatory for disclosure to even parliament talk less to a pressure group.
Security VOTE is the tigers tale of the executive.
I love SERAP
I doubt they would respond/reply them. This would even tend to make them want to cover up issues regarding security votes. No_Transparency_in_Nigerian_Government
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