A Federal High Court, Lagos has fixed Thursday (today) for the hearing of complaints by a legal practitioner, Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, that the Lagos State Government has started toll collection on the Lekki-Ikoyi Suspended Bridge while judgment on the suit challenging its propriety was being awaited.
Adegboruwa is, through an application he
filed on June 4, 2013, asking the court to allow him to file additional
facts, which were not available as of April 30, 2013 when the matter
was heard and adjourned till July 9 for judgment. After the court adjourned till July 9
for judgment, Governor Babatunde Fashola on May 29 inaugurated the
bridge, declaring it as a toll bridge. However, Justice Saliu Seidu fixed the
date for hearing of the application upon a separate request by the
lawyer for urgent hearing.
Adegboruwa had filed the affidavit
seeking the court to permit an urgent hearing of the application,
stating that there was “exceptional circumstances” warranting the urgent
hearing of the application. He, in an affidavit supporting the
application to file additional evidence, stated that the inauguration of
the bridge and the subsequent commencement of toll collection on it,
was meant to “undermine and over-reach” the case.
The lawyer premised his fresh
application on provisions of Order 26, Rules 1 and 27 of the Federal
High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2009; Order 11 of the Fundamental
Rights Enforcement Procedure) Rules, 2009 and Section 36(1) of the
Constitution.
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