Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has stated that it is illegal for the Nigerian Governors Forum to fix the price of petrol in the country.
Falana was reacting to the N380 per litre of petrol recommended by the governors as the possible new pump price.
The activist stated this on Friday when he answered questions from journalists, he maintained that although he respected the Nigerian governors’ Forum as an entity, however; ‘Nigerian governors in their individual capacities lack the powers to interfere in the fixing of the prices of petroleum products,’
According to Falana, Section 6 of the Petroleum Act which had not been amended provides that the Minister of Petroleum Resources shall fix the prices of petroleum in Nigeria.
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Explaining further he stated that when Nigerians were told that the PPPRA, DPR, NNPC, or Governors’ Forum or market forces were fixing the prices of petroleum products, they have abandoned the law.
Falana stated that the Nigeria situation is where President Muhammadu Buhari has made himself the Minister of Petroleum Resources illegally which was not supposed to be so.
He said, as usual, he did not want to take responsibility for punishing the Nigerian people, saying he stepped back and allow all manners of forces to fix petroleum products to hide his ineptitude.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK