The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against Senate President Godswill Akpabio and house of Representatives Speaker Tajudeen Abbas over their failure to end what it called an unlawful practice by the National Assembly of fixing its allowances and running costs.
The organisation also accused the National Assembly of failing to account for the monthly running costs paid to its members.
Akpabio and Abbas were sued for themselves and on behalf of all members of the National Assembly in the suit filed on behalf of SERAP by its lawyer, Kolawole Oluwadare.
The suit is seeking, among others, an order of mandamus to direct and compel Akpabio and Abbas to end what it called the apparently unlawful practice of the National Assembly fixing its remuneration and allowances called ‘running cost’.
