SERAP Holds Public Hearing on Using FOI Act to Curb Corruption in Health, Education, Water Sectors, today

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), will today hold a public hearing on building the capacity of Citizens, on the use of the Freedom of Information Act in Promoting Transparency and Accountability in the Health, Education and Water Sectors.

According to a statement signed by Adewale Timothy, Deputy Director of the Human Rights Advocacy Group, the public hearing holding is expected to bring together anti-corruption agencies, Lawyers, and other stakeholders and residents, who are directly or indirectly affected by bad delivery of services in the Health, Education and Water Sectors in Nigeria.

The Public Hearing, which will hold at the CITIHEIGHT Hotel, Opebi Sheraton, is also aimed at sensitising participants on how they can deploy the veritable tool of the Freedom of Information Act, in promoting transparency and accountability in these Sectors in Nigeria.

Expected stakeholders include the Trade Unions, Market Women, Taxi Drivers Association, Student Associations, Landlord Associations, Artisans, Hawkers without weight and measuring instruments, Spare parts dealers, and Vulcanisers, and other Nigerian citizens and residents.

SERAP is a non-profit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy organisation, devoted to promoting transparency, accountability and respect for socio-economic rights in Nigeria.

SERAP received the Wole Soyinka Anti-Corruption Defender Award, in 2014. It has also been nominated for, the UN Civil Society Award and Ford Foundation’s Jubilee Transparency Award. SERAP serves as one of two Sub-Saharan African civil society representatives on the UNCAC Coalition, a global anticorruption network of over 310 civil society organisations (CSOs), in over 100 countries.