Ijaw berates FG for flouting court order, may file contempt charge
Following the provision of marginal oil field licenses to the fifty-seven productive prospecting investors by the Nigerian Upstream fossil oil regulative Commission (NU PRC) last Tuesday, a coalition of Jaw interest teams has berated the national for flagrantly disobeying a subsisting restraining judicial writ against the exercise, declaring that the deal wouldn't stand. Jaw berates FG for flouting court order, might file contempt charge President Muhammad Bukhara Following the issuance of marginal oil field licenses to the 57 successful prospecting investors by the Nigerian Upstream fossil oil regulative Commission (NU PRC) last Tuesday, a coalition of Jaw interest teams has berated the national for flagrantly disobeying a subsisting restraining judicial writ against the exercise, declaring that the deal wouldn't stand. The Federal court sitting in Senator, the Bayes State capital, presided by Justice ISA H. Dashed, had in suit no: FHC/YANG/CS/81/2020 dated November 11, 2020, filed by High Chief Philip Brown AGU and two others on behalf of themselves and Jaw ethnic nationality, granted an injunction restraining the Minister of fossil oil Resources, Timbre Silva, and therefore the national from taking any action on the award of marginal oil licenses unfinished the conclusion of the case before it. However, in defiance of the court order, the govt proceeded to award the licenses last Tuesday, with the Minister, who supervised the exercise in Abuja, charging the fifty-seven marginal field investors to quickly develop their assets and revel in the complete advantages of the fossil oil trade Act (PIA). However, an announcement yesterday signed by the Secretary of the Jaw Elders Forum (IEF), Pastor Fine Bribe, on behalf of the coalition, warned the involved investors to not rejoice over the award of the licenses, adding that each legal suggests that would be accustomed to stop them from prospecting for oil till the productive conclusion of the case. The cluster aforesaid its legal team had already been briefed regarding the event for acceptable legal action, stressing that no effort would be spared in making certain that each one of parties concerned were made to fits the subsisting restraining order. “We understand that they're going to prefer to argue that the restraining order applies to the Minister of State for fossil oil Resources, not the Nigerian Upstream fossil oil regulative Commission (NU PRC), that issued the licenses on Tuesday. It cannot stand, as a result of this is often a transparent case of contempt. We'll pursue it up to the Supreme Court and that we are terribly assured that we will win the case,” Eye said.
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