The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), to immediately enforce a court judgment directing him and President Bola Tinubu to publish the names of individuals indicted in the alleged misappropriation of N6tn linked to abandoned projects of the Niger Delta Development Commission.
The funds were reportedly meant for the execution of 13,777 projects undertaken by the NDDC between 2000 and 2019.
The judgment, delivered on November 10, 2025, by Justice Gladys Olotu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, followed a Freedom of Information suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1360/2021 filed by SERAP.
Justice Olotu also ordered the Attorney General and the President to publish and make available to the public the NDDC forensic audit report submitted to the Federal Government on September 2, 2021
In a letter dated December 13, 2025, and signed by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the organisation said the continued failure to acknowledge and enforce the judgment undermines the rule of law and Nigeria’s judicial system.
“The continuing failure and/or refusal to publicly acknowledge the judgment and immediately enforce it make a mockery of the country’s legal and judicial processes and the rule of law,” SERAP stated.
The organisation cited Section 287(1) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which mandates that decisions of Nigerian courts “shall be enforced in any part of the Federation by all authorities and persons,” stressing that the provision admits no exception
