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IN THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT OF NIGERIA [N THE ABUJA JUDICIAL DIVISION HOLDEN AT ABUJA ON MONDAY, THE 5™ DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2024

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An Order restraining the Defendant either acting by itself or through 
any official or officer of the Defendant, or any agent or privy, or 
any governmental agency 
or 
law enforcement agency, 
or any 
person| by whatever designation, from disrupting or preventing the 
Plaintiffs from loading their petroleum products from their various. 
depotsjon account of failure to provide petroleurn prices by Chisco 
Limited, 
18. 
An Order restraining the Defendant either acting by itself or through 
any Official or officer of the Defendant, or any agent or privy, or 
any governmental agency 
or law enforcement agency, 
or any 
person: by whatever designation, from further directing the Plaintiffs 
to obtain a ‘Category A’ license for storage of petroleum products 
at their sites including but not limited to their offices, walk-in- 
centers, base sites and stations etc. 
19. 
An Order restraining the Defendant from further demanding from 
the 
Plaintiffs 
the 
destinations 
of the 
Plaintiffs’ trucks 
loading 
petroleum products from the Plaintiffs’ tank farms, 
20. 
Cost of this action. 
It is averred in support that the Plaintiffs are affiliate companies providing 
telecommunications infrastructure ser vice to telecommunications companies and 
licensed by the Nigerian Communications Commission (hereinafter referred to as 
NCC). The Defendant is a regulator of the Midstream and Downstream sectors. 
of the petroleum industry as established under the Petroleum Industry Act, 2021 
(hereinafter referred to as PIA 2021), with powers to enforce the provisions of 
the law as 
it relates to the downstream petroleum industry and also make 
regulations in that regard (Exh. IHS 1). The 1% and 2" Plaintiffs, together with 
JUDGEMENT IN JAS (MIGERIA) LTD, & ANOR, 
¥. 
THE NIG, MIDSTREAM & DOWNSTREAM PETROLEUM REGULATORY AUTHORITY 
SUIT NO: FHC/ABI/CS/1480/2023