Court Stops Fashola, LASG From Banning Movement On Environmental Days

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday declared as unlawful, the restriction of citizens' movement during the environmental sanitation exercise that is being observed in Lagos every month. The presiding judge, Justice Mohammed Idris, ruled that such restriction of movement, in the name of sanitation, amounted to an infringement of the "citizens' right to personal liberty and freedom of movement" protected by sections 35 and 41 of the Nigerian Constitution. He consequently nullified the power of the Lagos State Government and its agencies to arrest any citizen found moving, when the environmental sanitation exercise is being observed.