The compulsory 'sit at home' environmental sanitation day exercise, Lagos rejects court order

           

Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court in Lagos nullified the unlawful restriction of movement for Lagosians during the monthly last Saturday environmental sanitation.

 Justice Idris delivered the judgment on Monday, March 16, ruling that restricting the movement of citizens for the sake of environmental sanitation amounts to the violation of the citizens right to personal liberty and freedom of movement as protected by section 35 and 41 of the constitution.

Now, fast forward to yesterday, the Lagos State Government rejected the decision of a Federal High Court which cancelled human and vehicular restriction during the monthly environmental sanitation.

The state government added that it had already commenced filing an appeal against the decision of the trial court before a Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, noting that the trial judge, Justice Mohammed Idris erred in cancelling the monthly exercise.

The state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeola Ipaye, disclosed this in a statement he issued yesterday, noting that the judgment was unjust, unreasonable and unwarranted.

The attorney-general added that the state government “will immediately challenge the decision of the trial court at the appellate court. We are of course not satisfied with that decision of the Federal High Court looking at the density of Lagos being the highest in Nigeria.”