The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered a
reversal of the increase in Electricity Tariff recently
announced by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory
commission, NERC.
Justice Mohammed Idris gave the order while delivering
judgement in a suit by a Human Rights Lawyer, Mr.
Toluwani Adebiyi, challenging the increase in Tariff.
The Judge described NERC's action as being ultra vires
irrational, irregular and illegal.
The court was also of the view that NERC had not shown
that it acted in due obedience to prescribed procedures,
adding that there was no evidence that it complied with the
Electricity Power Sector Reform Act.
The Court awarded a cost of fifty thousand against NERC.
