A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has ordered the federal government to fix the prices of petrol, diesel, kerosene and other goods within seven days.
Trial judge, Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa, specifically ordered the government to fix the prices of milk, flour, salt, sugar, bicycles and its spare parts, matches, motorcycles and its spare parts, motor vehicles and its spare parts as well as petroleum products, including diesel, premium motor spirit, PMS, and kerosene.
The court made the order in its judgment in a suit by rights activist and lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, against the Price Control Board and the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF.
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, while reacting to the judgement, through his Special Adviser, Communication & Publicity, Kamarudeen Ogundele said Federal Government would get a copy of the court judgement, study it, to take necessary actions that would be in the interest of the masses and the nation.
Falana had in the suit, asked the court to determine “Whether by Section 4 of the Price Control Act, the Federal Government is carrying out its duty to impose a price on any goods that are of the kind specified in the First Schedule to the Price Control Act.”
At the hearing of the suit, the plaintiff, Falana informed the court that the motion on notice is premised on Section 4 (1) of the Price Control Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.