Suit against Multichoice’s tariff hike adjourned to June 15

ASUIT seeking to prevent Multichoice Nigeria Limited from increasing tariff was adjourned to June 15 by the Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal ( CCPT), yesterday, in Abuja.

After the claimant and counsel to the Coalition of Nigeria Consumers ( CNC), Festus Onifade, sought time to attend to his ill health, the three- member panel, presided over by Thomas Okosun, adjourned the matter for hearing.

In the suit marked, CCPT/ OP/ 1/ 2022, the legal practitioner had prayed the tribunal for “an order of interim injunction restraining the first defendant/ respondent, either by itself, agents, representatives, officers or privies, howsoever described, from carrying out the impending increase in tariff and cost of its products and services intended to take effect from April 1, 2022, until the hearing and determination of the motion.”

He equally sought: “An order of the honourable tribunal mandating the first defendant/ respondent to maintain status quo pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.”