Court grants lawyer’s FOI request, orders ministry to release conditional cash transfers beneficiaries’ details
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Summary: The court awarded N2 million in damages against the ministry for refusing to grant the lawyer’s request in breach of the FOI Act.
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction to release the details of the beneficiaries of its Conditional Cash Transfer programme that ran from November 2024 to May 2025.
In her judgement, delivered on Monday, Judge Binta Nyako gave the ministry seven days to release the details to a lawyer, Myson Nejo.
The court ruled that Mr Nejo, who is the 2024 governorship candidate of t
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