{"id":77908,"date":"2025-11-02T17:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77908"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:17:27","slug":"serap-drags-akpabio-abbas-to-court-over-%e2%82%a63m-bribery-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/02\/serap-drags-akpabio-abbas-to-court-over-%e2%82%a63m-bribery-allegation\/","title":{"rendered":"SERAP Drags Akpabio, Abbas to Court Over \u20a63m Bribery Allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sued Senate President Godswill Akpabio and House Speaker Tajudeen Abbas for allegedly failing to probe claims that lawmakers pay between \u20a61 million and \u20a63 million to present bills and motions.<\/p>\n<p>Filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja (FHC\/L\/CS\/2214\/2025), SERAP seeks an order compelling both leaders to refer the bribery claims to anti-corruption agencies and protect Hon. Ibrahim Auyo, who made the allegations, as a whistleblower.<\/p>\n<p>Auyo, an APC lawmaker from Jigawa, alleged in a viral video that members must pay to present legislative items.<\/p>\n<p>SERAP described the allegations as a betrayal of public trust and urged the court to compel the National Assembly to investigate and ensure transparency.<\/p>\n<p>No date has been fixed for the hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sued Senate President Godswill Akpabio and House Speaker Tajudeen Abbas for allegedly failing to probe claims that lawmakers pay between \u20a61 million and \u20a63 million to present bills and motions. Filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja (FHC\/L\/CS\/2214\/2025), SERAP seeks an order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77910,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77908\/revisions\/77910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}