A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Ebun Olu-Adegboruwa (SAN), has criticised the reintroduction of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise by the Lagos State Government, describing any attempt to restrict movement as unlawful and unconstitutional.<\/p>\n
In a statement he personally e-signed on Saturday, titled <\/span>\u201cEnvironmental Sanitation Does Not Require Force or Compulsion or Movement Restrictions,\u201d<\/span> Adegboruwa reacted to the exercise, which resumed across the state.<\/span><\/p>\n He argued that there is currently no law in force in Lagos State that empowers the government to restrict the movement of residents for the purpose of environmental sanitation.<\/span><\/p>\n According to him, the state government is deploying what he described as \u201cbrute force\u201d and abusing its powers to compel residents to remain indoors.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn a mega city like Lagos, we don\u2019t need to force citizens indoors for two hours in the name of sanitation. It is archaic and anachronistic,\u201d he stated.<\/span><\/p>\n The senior advocate further maintained that it is unconstitutional for a democratically elected government to impose policies on citizens through coercion.<\/span><\/p>\n He challenged the state government to produce any existing law backing the restriction of movement during sanitation exercises, insisting that none exists.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThere is no such law. Government is acting illegally and unconstitutionally,\u201d Adegboruwa declared.<\/span><\/p>\n The Lagos State Government had earlier reintroduced the monthly environmental sanitation exercise, urging residents to actively participate in maintaining a cleaner and healthier environment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Ebun Olu-Adegboruwa (SAN), has criticised the reintroduction of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise by the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21651,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions\/21651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}