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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has said several ground-breaking judgments it obtained so far during the tenure of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), have been left unimplemented.
SERAP Deputy Director, Oluwadare Kolawole, disclosed this during a press briefing tagged, ‘Failed Promises: Corruption in the Water, Health and Education Sectors in Nigeria’, held in Lagos on Wednesday.
He said the persistent and deliberate disobedience of judges’ decisions would ultimately encourage impunity and corruption.
He said, “SERAP has obtained several ground-breaking judgments that the Buhari administration has persistently failed and refused to implement. The failure and refusal to enforce and implement legally binding judgments of court is entirely inconsistent and incompatible with Nigeria’s international human rights obligations.”
He said the government’s…
