Lawyer sues Buhari over fuel scarcity

Lagos lawyer and rights activist, Kabir
Akingbolu, yesterday sued President
Muhammadu Buhari over inadequate
production and supply of petroleum products
to all citizens at regulated prices.
Akingbolu, in the fresh suit filed before a
Lagos Federal High Court, also listed the
Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) as
the second defendant.
The suit is yet to be assigned to any judge of
the court. He maintained that given the nature
and extent of inconveniences which the
citizens of the country are being subjected to
by the lack of petroleum products, especially
petrol, Buhari’s failure to make the products
sufficiently available was capable of causing
breach of peace and serious discomfiture to
the citizenry.
He wants an order directing Buhari to make
petroleum products available in desirable
quantity across the nation, and an order
mandating the president to fix and repair all
the nation’s refineries to meet the demand of
the masses.
He recalled in an affidavit in support of the
suit that on or about January 20, 2015, the
country started experiencing fuel scarcity in
every part of all the 36 states and the federal
capital.