Falana, PDP slam FG, NNPCL over fuel price hike

<p>• Reps summon Kyari • You lack power to fix fuel price, Falana tells NNPCL • PDP: APC’s N617/litre provocative, fuel shouldn’t sell more than N150/litre • Nigerians deceived, punished unnecessarily on petrol pricing –NLC</p>, <p>Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has slammed the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) over the fresh fuel price hike, adding that it lacked constitutional powers to fix the prices of petrol.</p>, <p>EARLIER, president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, said Nigerians have not been told the truth on the issue of petrol pricing.</p>, <p>Speaking on Politics Today, a Channels TV programme on Tuesday night, Ajaero said the government is punishing the masses. Ajaero noted that President Tinubu’s administration is toying with Nigerians, and NNPCL is only being clever by half. “NNPCL cannot import and say the commodity is imported by marketers, that is not true. If the government withdrew subsidies of petroleum products and suddenly, while we are about to start committee meetings, there is another price increase, why then will the government seek a court injunction and use other measures if it is not their business? “It seems we have entered a reign where Nigerians are being punished unnecessarily and where lies are coming up everywhere. If you have a single market where everybody must change dollars at N800/$1, you remove the market where people were changing dollars at N450 to import, it means the very moment that dollar value increases to even N900/N1,000, you will tell us that you imported it at current value.</p>