Muiz Banire, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and founder of the United Action For Change — “a pressure group and think tank with the drive to build a society where people are valued and treated equally, and enjoy their rights as full citizens” — wrote the petition on the basis of which the police abducted Daniel Ojukwu, FIJ can confirm.
On its website, Banire’s UAC says it is “striving to enable citizens to exercise their democratic rights and assert their dignity as full citizens and take control of their lives”.
Banire, a former national legal adviser of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), was appointed by President Bola Tinubu as the Lagos State Commissioner for Special Duties in 1999.
In 2000, he headed the ministry of transport until 2007 when he moved to the ministry of environment.
THE SUBJECT OF BANIRE’S PETITION
Banire’s pettition is in relation to FIJ’s coverage of financial mismanagement in the office of Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, senior special assistant to the president on sustainable development goals (SSAP-SDGs).
In one of its investigative pieces on the office of the SSAp-SDGs, FIJ had reported how, with two weeks left of Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential reign, Orelope-Adefulire, his senior special assistant on SDGs, sent N147.1 million for the building of classrooms and a skill acquisition centre to the account of a restaurant.
