The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi and his counterpart in the Ministry of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo have urged a Federal High Court in Abuja decline jurisdiction over a suit challenging the implementation of the Federal Government’s Expatriate Employee Levy (EEL).
Fagbemi and Tunji-Ojo made the request in the preliminary objections they filed against the suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1780/2024.
They queried the locus standi (the right to sue) of the plaintiff – the Incorporated Trustees of New Kosol Welfare Initiative – and argued that it failed to establish any cause of action against them.
In his objection, the Interior Minister described the suit as “academic or hypothetical,” and argued that there is no cause of action against him in the suit.
“There is no difference between the plaintiff and the 1st defendant (Tunji-Ojo) on record,” he said. (TheNation)