A lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Malcom Omirhobo, today filed a suit at a Federal High Court in Lagos, challenging the ban of the sales of petrol in jerry cans.
The applicant is suing for himself
and on behalf of other Nigerians.
The Attorney-General of the Federation, the
Minister of State for Petroleum, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC) and the Inspector General (IG) of Police were joined as respondents in
the suit.
The new suit numbered:
FHC/L/CS/1024/2016 is brought pursuant to Order 2: Rule 1 of the Fundamental
Rights Enforcement Procedure Rules, 2009.
Omirhobo is seeking a declaration
that the directive by the second and third respondents to filling station
owners not to sell petroleum products to Nigerians in jerry cans was
discriminatory.
In an affidavit deposed to by the
applicant, he averred that in January, he had approached several filling
stations within his reach, with a jerry can to purchase fuel for his
generators, but was denied sale.
The human rights activist said that
all the filling station operators said that there was a directive from the
respondents, not to sell fuel to Nigerians in jerry cans, gallons or kegs.
He, further, averred that this refusal led him
as well as many other Nigerians to resort to buying fuel from the black market
at exorbitant prices.
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