Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued President Bola Tinubu over “the failure to direct the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to reverse the apparently unlawful increase in the pump price of petrol, and to probe the allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the NNPCL.”
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN and the NNPCL are joined in the suit as Respondents.
SERAP, in the suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1361/2024 filed on Friday at the Federal High Court, Abuja, 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.”
It’s also asking the court “to compel President Tinubu to direct Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, and appropriate anti-corruption agencies to probe the allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the NNPC, including the spending of the reported $300 million ‘bailout funds’ collected from the Federal Government in August 2024, and the $6 billion debt it owes suppliers, despite allegedly failing to remit oil revenues to the treasury.”
No date has been fixed for the hearing of the suit.
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