SERAP Asks Govs To Redirect Security Votes To Healthcare

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to the 36 state governors urging them to provide information on spending details on COVID-19 and redirect public funds budgeted for security votes and life pensions for former governors to healthcare.

SERAP said the urgency in the request followed from the rising number of deaths in the state.

In the letter dated 25 April, 2020 and signed by SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare, the organization said: “Redirecting security votes and life pension funds to invest in public healthcare facilities and access to quality education in your state would improve your ability to respond to COVID-19, provide palliatives and socio-economic reliefs to residents, and meet the expectations of Nigerians.”

SERAP also said: “It would be a betrayal of your constitutional oath of office to continue to receive security votes, pay life pensions and other needless allowances at a time of public health crisis in your state.

“Taking these steps will not only help save lives but also help ensure that the necessary institutional reforms in the health and education sectors occur within your state.”

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