March 29, 2024

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The tribunal, headed by Mr Thomas Okosun, fastened the day on Monday just after counsel for the events presented their arguments for and in opposition to the subject.

The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) studies that the tribunal experienced, on June 20, granted Festus Onifade’s reliefs in an application seeking for a leave to amend his earlier originating summons and deem it to have been properly submitted.

The law firm and leaders of Coalition of Nigerian Customers in the most recent originating summons is suing the agency, the operators of DStv and Gotv, for N10 million damages.

Onifade, in the amended originating summons dated June 17 but filed June 20, also sought the order of the tribunal directing and mandating MultiChoice to adopt a pay-as-you-view model of billing for all its products and solutions and expert services forthwith.

NAN reviews that the claimants Onifade, a authorized practitioner, and Coalition of Nigeria People, on behalf of himself and some others, had sued the enterprise and Federal Competitors and Client Defense Fee (FCCPC) as 1st and 2nd respondents, shortly right after the organization, on March 22, announced its prepare to boost cost of its products from April 1.

They experienced prayed the tribunal for an purchase, restraining the organization from expanding its solutions and other products and solutions on April 1, pending the listening to and dedication of the movement on observe dated and filed on March 30, and the tribunal granted the ex-parte motion, directing get-togethers to sustain status quo ante bellum.

But despite the tribunal’s buy, the corporation was alleged to have long gone in advance with the price enhance on DStv and Gotv subscriptions.

And on April 11, the tribunal yet again ordered MultiChoice to revert back to the previous charges by sustaining standing quo of its March 30 order, pending the hearing and dedication of the substantive issue.

But Jamiu Agoro, counsel for MultiChoice in a movement in discover on Thursday, challenged the jurisdiction of the tribunal to listen to the make any difference.

The prayers, in accordance to the lawyer, involve “an buy for keep of execution of the get of the Honourable Tribunal produced on March 30, pending the dedication of the immediate application an get environment aside and discharging the order of the CCPT made on March 30 in this existing suit.

“An get of the Honourable tribunal putting out the go well with in limine for want of jurisdiction by the tribunal, and for this kind of additional buy or other orders as this Honourable Tribunal may perhaps deem fit to make in the circumstances.”

In his six grounds enumerated, Agoro argued that the tribunal lacked jurisdiction to entertain the match as the claimants lacked the competence to institute the action.

The tribunal then adjourned the matter until currently (Monday) to acquire the substantive fit and the defendants’ responses.