Human rights lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), has asked the Supreme Court to restrain the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwoolu, from imposing movement restrictions on Lagosians during the planned monthly environmental sanitation exercise via a Motion on Notice filed at the registry of the Supreme Court on Monday.
He is asking the court for an order of injunction restraining Sanwoolu and the other respondents from taking steps to restrict his movement and that of other residents of Lagos State, on the last Saturday or any other day of every month to observe any environmental exercise/activity pending the hearing and final determination of the appeal pending in the Supreme Court.
Adegboruwa is also seeking an order restraining the respondents from arresting and detaining him and other residents of Lagos State on the last Saturday or any other day of every month whatsoever, for the purpose of enforcing compliance with the environmental sanitation policy of Lagos State pending the hearing and final determination of the appeal pending before the Supreme Court.
He listed 15 grounds in support of the application signed by Oluwatosin Adesioye, Esq., Deputy Head of Chambers (Litigation) of Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN & Co.
The suit is in response to unconfirmed news of the planned resumption of the monthly environmental sanitation policy of Lagos State, by which all residents are forced to remain indoors for three hours on the last Saturday of every month.
It will be recalled that on March 16, 2015, Justice M.B. Idris of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos (as at that time), struck down the environmental sanitation programme of Lagos State and further restrained the Inspector-General of Police and all police officers from enforcing the said policy through indiscriminate arrest of citizens for non-compliance. Although the Lagos State Government appealed against the judgment, it nonetheless abolished the unpopular policy.
In a 17-paragraph affidavit in support of the application for injunction before the Supreme Court, Mr. Daniel Sidi Wamdzu, the Litigation Executive in the law office of the applicant narrated the sequence of events leading to the case, stating that, sequel to the commencement of Suit No. FHC/L/CS/1690/2024 before the Federal High Court of Lagos State, sitting at Ikoyi, Lagos State, on 16th day of March 2015, judgment was delivered by the Federal High Court, adding that by the judgment of the trial court, it was held that the rights of the Applicant as guaranteed under Sections 35 and 41 of the 1999 Constitution had been infringed upon by the respondents and as such all the substantive reliefs sought by the Applicant against the Respondents were granted as prayed.
The Applicant and other residents of Lagos State have been, without any resistance or hindrance, allowed their everyday free movement inclusive on the last Saturday or any other day of every month whatsoever since the judgment of the Trial Court.
No date has been fixed for the hearing of the motion.
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