SERAP is also asking the Court to restrain and stop the Abuja Municipal Area Council AMAC, its Chairman; Deputy chairman; Speaker; Legislature and their agents from paying life pensions to former officials, and ultimately, to themselves under the edict law.
The advocacy group, SERAP is also seeking an order to direct and compel AMAC, its Chairman; Deputy chairman; Speaker; and legislature to recover all previous payments made under the AMAC life pension edict law, from those who have already collected pensions, and to return same to the coffers of the council so that the public funds can be spent to provide public goods and services The suit followed SERAP’s open letter dated 11 October 2019 to the Chairman of the Abuja Municipal Area Council, ABDULLAHI CANDIDO, urging him to urgently withdraw and revoke the edict for the unconstitutional and illegal payment of life pensions to former chairmen, vice-chairmen, speakers and other officials of AMAC.
No date has been fixed for the hearing of the suit.
