A lawyer, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, has sued Delta State
government before a state high court, for restricting peoples
movement during the conduct of the state’s environmental sanitation
exercise every last Saturday of the month.
Apart from the state government, others joined as respondents in
the suit, are the state’s Attorney-General, Delta State Police
Commissioner and the Ughelli North Local Council.
The application brought pursuant to order 11 rule 1 of the
fundamental enforcement procedure rules 2009, section 41, 34, 35
and 64(1) of the 1999 constitution, is praying the court to declare
that the restriction of the applicant’s movement by the agents of
the 1st to 4th respondents on February 24, 2017 along Patani/Port
Harcourt expressway, Ughelli is a violation of his right to
movement guaranteed by the constitution and therefore unlawful.
The applicant who is suing for himself and on behalf of other
Deltans, is also praying the court to declare that the restriction
of movement of Deltans on the last Saturday of every month between
the hours of 7a.m. and 10a.m., so as to observe the environmental
sanitation directive is a violation of the rights of Deltans and
therefore illegal.
He is asking for N5 million damages, adding that the penalty
would be used to fund a recognized motherless babies home in
Ughelli, as well as N250,000 as cost of litigation.
A lawyer, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, has sued Delta State
government before a state high court, for restricting peoples
movement during the conduct of the state’s environmental sanitation
exercise every last Saturday of the month.
Apart from the state government, others joined as respondents in
the suit, are the state’s Attorney-General, Delta State Police
Commissioner and the Ughelli North Local Council.
The application brought pursuant to order 11 rule 1 of the
fundamental enforcement procedure rules 2009, section 41, 34, 35
and 64(1) of the 1999 constitution, is praying the court to declare
that the restriction of the applicant’s movement by the agents of
the 1st to 4th respondents on February 24, 2017 along Patani/Port
Harcourt expressway, Ughelli is a violation of his right to
movement guaranteed by the constitution and therefore unlawful.
The applicant who is suing for himself and on behalf of other
Deltans, is also praying the court to declare that the restriction
of movement of Deltans on the last Saturday of every month between
the hours of 7a.m. and 10a.m., so as to observe the environmental
sanitation directive is a violation of the rights of Deltans and
therefore illegal.
He is asking for N5 million damages, adding that the penalty
would be used to fund a recognized motherless babies home in
Ughelli, as well as N250,000 as cost of litigation.