The commission is also asking the court to restrain and stop the Senate from collecting the money until the downward review of the amount is carried out by the Senate.
The suit, filed by SERAP Deputy Director, KOLAWOLE OLUWADARE supported by an affidavit of urgency, read that a public officer shall not put himself in a position where his personal interest conflicts with his official duties.
He said members of the National Assembly as public officials form a very tiny percentage of about two hundred million Nigerians.
They urged the court to grant the plaintiffs’ reliefs by stopping the spending of the said sum while compelling the Senate to undertake a downward review of the sum proposed and budgeted which they said is inconsistent with the provisions of section fifty seven sub section four of the Public Procurement Act 2007.
