Monday, October 4, 2010

Court adjourns Lekki toll gate case

Lekki Toll Gate
A Lagos High Court on Monday fixed October 20 for further hearing in the suit challenging the legality of toll gates on the Lagos-Lekki-Epe Expressway.

A Lagos lawyer, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa had on September 28 filed the suit challenging the Lagos State Government over the erection of toll gates on the road.

He wants the court ”to stop the government from conceding its statutory responsibility of providing roads and other infrastructure to a private company”.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the state government had in 2009 conceded the road to Lekki Concession Company.

At the resumed hearing of the case on Monday, Adegboruwa requested the court to transfer three of the four-point claims to the Court of Appeal for determination.

The claims include whether the proposed toll or road tax is supported by any law, the claimant’s constitutional right to freedom of movement and his capacity to institute the action.

Counsel to the Lagos State Government, Mrs S.O. Olusemo-Elueme urged the court to hear their preliminary objection on the court’s jurisdiction to hear the case.

Justice Babajide Candide-Johnson said the position of the law was not to hear the preliminary objection first, but to take all the applications cumulatively.

He adjourned further hearing till Oct.20.

Source: http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20101005372071

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