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Compulsory sanitation: Adegboruwa drags Sanwo-Olu to Supreme Court
Ebun Adegboruwa.
Published By: Paul Dada
Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has asked the Supreme Court to restrain the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, from imposing movement restrictions on Lagosians during the planned monthly environmental sanitation exercise.
In a Motion on Notice filed at the registry of the Supreme Court on Saturday, Adegboruwa is seeking an order of injunction to restrain Sanwo-Olu 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 for the purpose of observing 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.
15 grounds are listed in support of the application signed by Oluwatosin Adesioye, Esq., Deputy Head of Chambers (Litigation) of Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN & Co.
Recently, there has been 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.
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On March 16, 2015, the Federal High Court, Lagos presided over by the Honourable Justice M.B. Idris (as he then was) 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 policy.
In a 17-paragraph affidavit in support of the application for injunction before the Supreme Court, Mr. Daniel Sidi Wamdzu, Litigation Executive in the law office of the applicant narrated the sequence of events leading to the case.
No date has been fixed for the hearing of the motion.
