The Nigeria Customs Service Board and the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service have been sued by an organization called All Youths Re-Oriented Initiative (AYRIN) over an order prohibiting the transportation of fuel and petroleum products in areas near the nation’s borders.
The Nigeria Customs Service Board and the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service are named as defendants in the lawsuit by furucinovel.
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The Federal High Court in Abeokuta, Ogun State, received the lawsuit.
In a lawsuit filed by their attorney, Izunya Izunya and co., the claimants, under suit number FHC/AB/CS/87/23, ask the court to rule on whether depriving Nigerians who live in communities any distance from the country’s border of the ability to purchase, sell, or obtain petroleum products is discriminatory, unlawful, or unconstitutional.
In addition to requesting a ruling on whether the circular issued by the first and second defendants prohibiting fuel tankers from dispensing fuel in communities in Nigeria within twenty (20) kilometers of the Nigerian border is unlawful, unconstitutional, and in violation of sections 42 and 43 of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended), the plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit on behalf of themselves and other Nigerians who live in border communities throughout the nation.
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“Whether the ban on fuel entering a 20-kilometer radius around a border area has not caused Nigerians living there immense suffering and hardship on an economic, social, and psychological level, as well as any other order or further orders as the Honorable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances.”
The plaintiffs further request a declaration from the court that the circular No.027, dated September 6, 2019, issued by the first and second defendants, prohibiting fuel tankers from transporting fuel to filling stations and from purchasing and selling fuel within twenty kilometers of Nigeria’s borders with other nations, is unlawful, unconstitutional, and void.
The group said that the defendants have no legal basis for issuing such a circular and that it violates sections 1 (1) & (3) as well as section 42 of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended).
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The group’s president, Oguntoyinbo Olufemi Ajadi, reportedly provided an affidavit in favor of the lawsuit, according to the furucinovel.
According to Ajadi’s affidavit, which the Daily Post obtained on Sunday, all of the group’s members have given their approval for him to testify in court.
He continued by saying that the group’s members are dispersed throughout Ogun State’s impacted areas and beyond.
According to him, Wasimi-Okuta, Ajegunle Ajilete, Afon, Owode-idiroko, Iwoye, Okeagbede, Idofa, and Imeko are a few of the Ogun State regions that are impacted.
The filing of this lawsuit, according to him, is in line with the goals and objectives of the plaintiff, which are listed in exhibit B of paragraph 3 above. The plaintiff’s members are dispersed throughout the various local governments, villages, towns, and cities in Ogun State, including but not limited to llaro, Afon, Owode-idiroko, Ajegunle Ajilete, Wasimi-Okuta, Iwoye, Okeagbede, Idofa, Imeko, Imeko, and so forth.
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