Court declares 45% electricity tariff hike illegal, reckless lNLC hails ruling, asks DISCOS to revert to old rates Akeem Nafiu and Yekeen Nurudeen
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ustice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High
Court in Lagos yesterday declared illegal and ‘procedurally ultra vires, irrational, irregular’ the hike in electricity tariff
announced in July 2015 by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). Besides, the court said
the hike in the electricity tariff was not only procedurally defective and a breach of EPSRA 2005, but “clearly hasty, reckless and
irresponsible." The Muhammadu Buhari administration had, last year, increased the electricity tariff in the country by 45 per cent. Minister of Power,
Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, and the regulatory agency, NERC, had insisted that there was no going back on the tariff hike. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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