COURT ORDERS MULTICHOICE TO ISSUE A ONE MONTH FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO NIGERIANS IN ADDITION TO N150 MILLION FINE

The Competition and Consumer Security Council has fined unmistakable PAY television administrator, Multichoice Nigeria, N150 million for challenging a court
order in Abuja that as of late limited it from expanding the costs of its DStv and GOtv packages.

The decision conveyed by three of the board drove by Thomas Okosu on Friday likewise requested Multichoice to give Nigerians a one-month free subscription on DSTV and GOTV.

Onifade, sued Multi-Choice Nigeria Ltd, and the Federal Competition Consumers Insurance Commission.

(FCCPC), blamed Pay television for shamefully expanding subscription charges without one-month notice to clients and utilizing on it to look for break orders against Pay television.

A three-part court led by Saratu Shafii had decided for Onifade by limiting Multichoice meanwhile, in the suit checked CCPT/Over powered/2/2024, controlling the PAY television from proceeding the looming cost increment booked to produce results from first May 2024 forthcoming the meeting and assurance of the Movement on Notice.

In any case, Multichoice’s attorney, Moyosore .J. Onibanjo (SAN) recorded a fundamental protest encouraging the court to decline the order documented by Festus Onifade and strike it out on the grounds that such a cost debate case had been chosen before for his client.

Onibanjo likewise offered and embraced the past judgment of the council in suit no CCPT/Over powered/1/2022(Exhibit A), close by his application, saying when a court has decided an issue between similar gatherings on a similar topic previously, that matter can’t be re-prosecuted again by any court.

He focused on that the ability to manage costs is vested in the President of Nigeria, adding that the Court isn’t the discussion where the petitioner can come to look to control the costs and administrations presented by Multichoice.

On his part, Onifade contended that the issue he set under the steady gaze of the court is whether Multichoice Nigeria gave sufficient notification in regard of the May 1, 2024 cost television subscription increment, and not cost guideline or increment.

Onifade likewise requested that the Court direct Multi-decision Nigeria Restricted to pay the amount of N1,000,000,000.00 (One Billion Naira in particular) or any sum the Council consider may fit proper in this situation for “purposely rebelling, repudiating, and inability to agree with the Break Request of this Respectable Court allowed on the 29th April 2024.”