A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, struck out an ex parte application praying for an order of mandamus compelling the National Assembly to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill.

Trial judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba struck out the suit by a lawyer, Mr. Okiogbero Edhebru, for lacking in merit.

Edhebru, in the suit,  had asked the court for “a judicial review of the applicant’s right to wit an order of mandamus compelling the National Assembly, their agents and privies to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

He sought a declaration that the failure, neglect and refusal or ommission of the National Assembly to pass the PIB had denied him and other Nigerians access to investment, a situation, which he argued, had led to unemployment and slow economic growth.

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