Okada riders sue Lagos state authorities

Candidates within the lawsuit earlier than a federal excessive courtroom within the state are Comrade Peter Umoh, Pastor Tony Onuoha, David Abiona, Adebayo Oluwasegun, Gambo Muhammed, Yakubu Abubakar, Ayo Boluwade, Amaechi Peter and Nwamiri Monday.

Defendants within the swimsuit marked FHC/L/CS/1016/2022 are Lagos State Lawyer Common and Commissioner for Justice, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos State Job Power, Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, and Commissioner for Transport, Lagos State.

Asides asking for a declaration that the ban on industrial bikes is against the law, illegal and unconstitutional, the candidates additionally requested the courtroom to declare that the “purported proposed ban of business bike transportation in Lagos State by the governor with out listening to from the operators whose rights are affected or prone to be affected is a violation of the constitutional rights of the candidates to honest listening to offered for and encapsulated in Part 36 of the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).”

Additionally they prayed for a declaration that the ban on the enterprise of business bike transportation in Lagos by the federal government “is a violation of the rights of the candidates assured by Part 33 of the 1999 structure who can’t be alive with out meals and different technique of sustenance and whose earnings is the enterprise of business bike transportation.”

Within the affidavit in help of the appliance, sworn to by one Pastor Emmanuel Donatus, the deponent averred that he and different operators had no technique of sustenance other than the enterprise of Okada.

They prayed the federal government to limit Okada operations on main highways to “authorised areas” reasonably than banning their operations. The swimsuit has not been assigned to any choose.