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A Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal sitting in Abuja has restrained Multi-Choice Nigeria Limited from increasing its tariffs and cost of products and services scheduled to begin on April 1.
The three-member tribunal presided over by Thomas Okosun, gave the order following an ex-parte motion moved by Festus Onifade, a legal practitioner, on behalf of himself and the Coalition of Nigeria Consumers.
Other members of the tribunal include Sola Salako Ajulo and Ibrahim EL-Yakubu.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that in the suit marked: CCPT/OP/1/2022, Multi-Choice Nigeria Limited and Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission are 1st and 2nd respondents respectively.
The motion ex-parte filed by the applicants on March 29 was brought pursuant relevant sections of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2018.
The applicants among other prayers, prayed for “an order of interim injunction restraining the 1st defendant/respondent, either by itself, agents, representatives, officers or privies, howsoever described, from carrying out the impending increase in tariffs and cost of its products and services intended to take effect from 1st April, 2022, until the hearing and determination of the motion on notice already filed before this tribunal.
The matter was adjourned until April 11 for the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
“All parties in this suit are to appear before this Honourable Tribunal on the 11th day of April, 2022,” it ruled.
