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SERAP has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu, requesting a reduction in petrol rates from N845 per litre to a reasonable amount per litre. The group is suing the president for not giving the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited the order to halt the gasoline price increase.
Additionally, the national oil company’ s claimed failure to investigate allegations of corruption and mismanagement is addressed in the complaint.
The Socio- Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued President Bola Tinubu, demanding a decrease in petrol prices from N845 to N600 per litre.
The organisation is suing the president for failing to order the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to stop the increase in the price of petrol at the pump in a suit filed last Friday at the Federal High Court in Abuja under the file number FHC/ABJ/CS/1361/2024.
The suit filed by Ebun- Olu Adegboruwa, the lawyer for SERAP tackles the national oil firm’ s alleged failure to look into claims of mismanagement and corruption.
The NNPCL, Lateef Fagbemi, the Attorney- General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, are listed as respondents in the document, which was made available to PUNCH.
SERAP Makes Demand
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” .
Additionally, it is pleading with the president to order the AGF and other anti- corruption organisations to look into the claims of wrongdoing and corruption inside the NNPC. The organisation notes that the rise in petrol prices is causing great hardship for Nigerians and calls for the prosecution of anyone suspected of being accountable for the alleged corruption and mismanagement in the NNPCL, provided there is sufficient admissible evidence. It also calls for the recovery of any proceeds of corruption.
