The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project which made the allegation has also filed a lawsuit against the President over the issue.
Joined in the suit as Respondents are the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha.
In a statement, SERAP Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, said the decision to file a lawsuit followed the failure to probe the spending of trillions of ecological funds by governments at all levels from 2001 till date, and to ensure the prosecution of suspected perpetrators of corruption and mismanagement of public funds.
According to him, the United Nations Children’s Fund recently said that no fewer than six hundred persons died and one point three million were rendered homeless as a result of the floods that ravaged most states across the country, with destruction of properties worth billions.
In the suit filed last Friday at the Federal High Court, Lagos, SERAP is asking the court to direct President BUHARI to promptly and thoroughly investigate the spending of Ecological Fund by governments at the Federal, state and local government levels from 2001 till date.
A date is yet to be fixed for the hearing of the suit.
