A senior Nigerian lawyer, Femi Falana, has threatened to go to court if the Muhammadu Buhari administration goes ahead to allocate oil blocks to private individuals and corporate bodies.
Mr Falana said such allocations are a gross violation of the fundamental rights of the Nigerian masses to freedom from discrimination and equal right of access to public property.
His threat was contained in a letter to the president, dated March 20, with a copy made available to Premium Times.
In the letter titled, “Request to Stop Allocating Oil Blocks to Private Individuals and Corporate Bodies”, the lawyer also warned the president to restrict the allocation of oil blocks including marginal fields to the Federal Government and the governments of the 36 states of the Federation.
