Commercial Motorcycle Riders’ Union Sues Lagos Govt
Commercial Motorcycle Riders Union in Lagos State has sued the Lagos State Government before the Federal High Court in Lagos.Information Guide Nigeria
According to NIGERIAN TRIBUNE, the Trustees of Motorcycle Transport Union of Nigeria (MTUN) have described Lagos State Government’s ban on okada as illegal, unlawful, and unconstitutional.
As reported by NIGERIAN TRIBUNE, other applicants in the suit are Comrade Peter Umoh, Pastor Tony Onuoha, David Abiona, Adebayo Oluwasegun, Gambo Muhammed, Nwamiri Monday, Yakubu Abubakar, Ayo Boluwade and Amaechi Peter.
Others are Abayomi Adegbite, Oluwaseyi Funmi, Mohammed Kadi, Abdullahi Jigla, Nora Usman, Pastor Emmanuel Donatus, Sanni Abubakar, and Nwibo Sunday.
NIGERIAN TRIBUNE reports that In the suit numbered FHC/L/CS/1016/2022, the applicants are praying the court for a declaration that the “purported proposed ban of the commercial motorcycle transportation in Lagos State by the governor, without hearing from the operators whose rights are affected or likely to be affected is a violation of the constitutional rights of the applicants to fear hearing, provided for and encapsulated in Section 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended.”
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The applicants are also praying for a declaration that the ban “is a violation of the rights of the applicants guaranteed by Section 33 of the 1999 Constitution as amended who cannot be alive without food and other means of sustenance and whose income is the business of commercial motorcycle transportation.”Jamb Result
As reported by NIGERIAN TRIBUNE, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos State Task Force, Lagos Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, and Commissioner for Transport, Lagos State are the defendants.
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