Electricity Tariff Hike: Court Dismisses MAN’s Suit

A Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed the MAN’s suit challenging the implementation of the Band A electricity tariff review by AEDC, others.

A statement by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Thursday stated that the judgment was delivered on Monday.

In the judgment, the court was said to have considered all the parties’ arguments and ruled that MAN’s suit was an abuse of the court process, being premature and without due regard to the provisions of Section 51 of the Electricity Act 2023.

“The court also held that MAN’s case disclosed no reasonable cause of action as it had not exhausted the dispute resolution mechanism.

“It thus held that the suit was not instituted with due process of law, and consequently struck out the case,” the NERC said.

The Punch recalls that MAN had challenged the minor review of the electricity tariff by the NERC and filed a lawsuit at the Lagos Judicial Division of the Federal High Court.

The manufacturers sought four reliefs: that due process stated in the Act for the review was not fulfilled before AEDC, and the others applied to NERC for the tariff review on July 31, 2023.