We’ve sued President Tinubu over the failure to direct the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to reverse the apparently unlawful increase in the pump price of petrol, and to probe the allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the NNPCL.--SERAP.
SERAO filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu and his administration over “the failure to direct the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to reverse the burdening increase in the pump price of petrol, and failure to probe the allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the NNPCL.”
Joined in the suit as Respondents are the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, and the NNPCL.
In the suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1361/2024 filed last Friday at the Federal High Court, Abuja, SERAP is asking the court “to compel President Tinubu to direct the NNPCL to reverse the unjust, illegal, unconstitutional and unreasonable increase in the price of petrol from N845 per litre to N600 per litre.”
SERAP urged the court “to compel President Tinubu to direct Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, and appropriate anticorruption agencies to investigate and prosecute anyone suspected to be responsible for the alleged corruption and mismanagement in the NNPCL, if there is sufficient admissible evidence, and to recover any proceeds of corruption.”
In the suit, SERAP is arguing that: “The increase in petrol price is causing untold hardship to those less well-off. As the economic situation in Nigeria deteriorates, the increase is pushing people further into poverty and desperation.”
