The Federal Government was given a seven-day deadline by a federal high court in Ikoyi, Lagos, to set the prices of goods and petroleum products.
Following an initial motion filed and contested by the applicant and rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), Justice Ambose Lewis-Allagoa granted the order.
The judge stated, “I have the applicant, Femi Falana, in a suit and I have also discovered that all the facts deposed to in the affidavit attached to the originating motion are all deemed admitted, even though the originating motion was served on the respondents, the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Price Control Board, and there was no opposition to it by way of counter-affidavit, which is legal.
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The judge stated, “I have the applicant, Femi Falana, in a suit and I have also discovered that all the facts deposed to in the affidavit attached to the originating motion are all deemed admitted, even though the originating motion was served on the respondents, the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Price Control Board, and there was no opposition to it by way of counter-affidavit, which is legal.
As a result, “all prayers requested in the motion papers are hereby granted in their exact form.”
The Federal Government was directed by Justice Lewis-Allagoa in Court to set prices for petroleum products such as diesel, gasoline motor spirit (PMS), kerosene, bicycles and their spare parts, matches, motorcycles and their spare parts, and motor vehicles and their spare parts.
