The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over the failure to reverse what they described as unlawful and unreasonable increase in electricity tariff, and to probe the spending of public funds as investments and bailouts to DisCos and GenCos since 2005. Joined in the suit as Respondents are the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), and the Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading PLC. This followed the reported approval by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission wherein electricity tariffs were increased across DisCos in the country in December 2022. In the suit filed on behalf of SERAP by its lawyers Kolawole Oluwadare and Ms Adelanke Aremo, the right group opines that the increase in electricity tariff would exacerbate the extreme poverty across the country, and undermine the ability of millions of Nigerians to satisfy basic human needs.
