The Federal High Court has been asked to prevent NASS from releasing the N5.5Bn allocated to members of the 9th Senate for purchase of luxury cars.
Serap, BudgIT, and other rights groups said the amount allocated was ‘unjust and unfair’
In the case filed on Friday the groups said: “Spending a huge sum of N5.550 billion to buy luxury cars for principal members of the ninth Senate is unjust and unfair.
It negates the constitutional oath of office made by members to perform their functions in the interest of the well-being and prosperity of Nigeria and its citizens, as contained in the Seventh Schedule of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended).”
They asked what the “economic value and contribution of the vehicles sought to be purchased”.
The suit, filed by Kolawole Oluwadare and supported by an affidavit of urgency, read in part: “A public officer shall not put himself in a position where his personal interest conflicts with his official duties.
But the plan to spend N5.550 billion to buy vehicles for principal members of the Senate is a textbook case of a conflict of their personal interests with national interest of fiscal efficiency – a conflict eventually resolved in favour of personal and self-interest.”
No date has been set to hear the case.
