Mr. Femi Falana SAN, has asked the President
Muhammdau Buhari lead federal government
to halt the allocation crude oil blocks to
individuals and foreign corporate bodies.

This came as he warned that if the government
refused to accede to his request he will
challenge the constitutional validity of
allocating the oil blocks and other natural
resources collectively owned by the Nigerian
people but vested in the Federal Government to a few private individuals and corporate bodies.

Falana in latter titled ‘Request To Stop Allocating
Oil Blocks To Private Individuals And Corporate
Bodies’ on Sunday said: ‘by allocating oil blocks
to a few individuals and corporate bodies the
Federal Government has violated Section 16(2)
(c) of the Constitution which provides that “the economic system is not operated in such a
manner as to permit the concentration of
wealth or the means of production and
exchange in the hands of few individuals or of
a group.”’

Falana also lamented that: ‘the allocation of oil
blocks to a few individuals and corporate
bodies by the Federal Government constitutes
a gross violation of the fundamental rights of
the Nigerian people to freedom from
discrimination, equal right of access to public property and in the equal enjoyment of the
common heritage of mankind as well as the
right to social, economic and cultural
development guaranteed by articles 2, 13, 22
of the African Charter on Human and Peoples
Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act. Therefore, pursuant to article 22 thereof which
has imposed a duty on the Federal Government
to freely dispose of the wealth and national
resources of the nation in the exclusive
interests of the Nigerian people we urge Your
Excellency to desist from allocating oil and blocks to a select group of Nigerians and
foreigners.

BuhariAdvocate:
Oga your headline is contradicting. Don't be silly.