Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court in Lagos, yesterday, barred the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) from implementing the new electricity tariff scheduled to come into force on June 1, 2015.
Idris’ order is sequel to the hearing of an ex-parte application brought before him by a Lagos lawyer, Toluwani Adebiyi, seeking to restrain the NERC,
and all the electricity distribution companies in Nigeria, from enforcing any increment in electricity tariff pending the hearing and determination of his suit.
Adebiyi, who personally moved the ex-parte application, had prayed the court to restrain the NERC and the electricity distribution companies from foisting further hardship and unjustifiable tariff increment on Nigerians as widely announced by the commission.
The NERC chairman, Dr Sam Amadi, had recently, at a news conference in Abuja, announced plans by the commission to implement the upward review in electricity tariff effective from June 1. Amadi had also made public that with the review most electricity companies will retain the monthly N750 fixed charge.
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