2019 Presidential Elections: Scrap Security Votes, Immunity Clause, Serap Urges Candidates

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked all presidential candidates in the 2019 elections, to commit themselves to innovative antigraft reforms which include the scraping of security votes and immunity clause for political office holders.

SERAP’s position was contained in a letter which the organisation said it has sent out to all major presidential candidates in the forthcoming polls.

The group in its letter set before each candidate five main anti-corruption priorities which they believe candidates should address.

These priorities include “committing to scrapping security votes spending by presidents, committing to repeal the Electric Power Sector Reform Act of 2005, committing to reopen all reports of corruption in the electricity sector and ensuring effective prosecution of corruption allegations”.