Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola.Facebook
The Socio-Economic and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued Power, Works and Housing Minister Babatunde Fashola over energy privatization.
As acknowledged by SERAP, the swimsuit is in search of solutions to “the spending on the privatisation of the electricity sector and the exact amount of post-privatisation spending on generation companies (GENCOS), distribution companies (DISCOS) and Transmission Company of Nigeria.”
In the swimsuit filed final week on the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, SERAP is in search of “an order for leave to apply for judicial review and an order of mandamus directing or compelling Mr Fashola to provide specific details on the privatisation of the electricity sector, the names of all the companies and individuals involved; and to publish widely including on a dedicated website any such information.”
The swimsuit adopted SERAP’s Freedom of Information request dated 7 May 2018 to Mr Fashola giving him 14 days to offer “information on the status of implementation of the 25-year national energy development plan, and whether the Code of Ethics of the privatisation process which bars staff of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and members of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) from buying shares in companies being privatised were deliberately flouted.”