ASABA/Nigeria: The 14 days ultimatum given by the Delta Civil Society Organisations Forum, DELCOF, to the Delta State Government to retract its misleading publication circulated across media outfits, will expire on Tuesday, 29th March, 2022.
A statement made available by DELCOF’s BoT Chairman, Chief Mulade Sheriff in Asaba,
on Monday, 28th March, 2022, says prominent legal practitioners in Nigeria have thrown their weights behind DELCOF’s decision to sue the State Government, as part of their policy of keeping the Forum’s integrity.
DELCOF, in an open letter, had urged the Delta State Government to rescind its purported circular, titled “Government Special Announcement” dated 9th March, 2022, referring to DELCOF, the true umbrella body of non-state actors, as a self-styled group of mischievous elements.
The civil society organizations in DELCOF described the publication as misleading, and are also backing DELCOF by drafting their corporate lawyers to sue the State Government for ignoring calls to retract the said misleading information published in the media through the Secretary to the State Government, SSG.
It was also gathered that the Government failed to respond to the DELCOF’s demand that the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Civic Engagement and Civil Society be called to order for professional misconducts in its role as the regulator of civil society activities in Delta State.
With legal backing from civil society groups and lawyers in Delta State, DELCOF is set to initiate a suit of 10 billion Naira against the Delta State Government, led by Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa.
