Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued President Bola Tinubu over “the failure to reverse the increase in the pump price of petrol.”
The lawsuit is also filed by SERAP against the President’s failure to probe the allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, 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.
This was made known in a statement on Sunday by Kolawole Oluwadare, SERAP Deputy Director.
Kolawole said the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1361/2024, filed last 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.”
According to the statement, SERAP is 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.
SERAP is asking the court “to compel President Tinubu to direct Fagbemi and appropriate anticorruption agencies to prosecute anyone suspected to be responsible for the alleged corruption and mismanagement in the NNPCL.
“The increase in petrol price is causing immense hardship to those less well-off. As the economic situation in Nigeria deteriorates, the increase is pushing people further into poverty.
“Holding the NNPC to account for alleged corruption and mismanagement in the oil sector would serve legitimate public interests.”
