Human rights lawyer, Ebun Olu-Adegboruwa, has strongly opposed the reintroduction of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise by the Lagos State Government, arguing that any form of movement restriction tied to the exercise lacks legal backing.<\/p>\n
In a statement he e-signed on Saturday titled <\/span>\u201cEnvironmental Sanitation Does Not Require Force or Compulsion or Movement Restrictions,\u201d<\/span> the Senior Advocate of Nigeria criticised the policy, which resumed across Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n Adegboruwa maintained that no existing law in the state authorises the government to confine residents indoors for sanitation purposes, stressing that enforcing such restrictions amounts to an abuse of power.<\/span><\/p>\n He described the approach as outdated and unsuitable for a modern, densely populated city like Lagos, noting that sanitation efforts should not rely on coercion.<\/span><\/p>\n According to him, democratic governance does not permit the imposition of policies on citizens through force, insisting that compliance should be voluntary rather than enforced.<\/span><\/p>\n The legal practitioner challenged the state authorities to present any valid law supporting the restriction of movement during sanitation hours, insisting that none exists.<\/span><\/p>\n He warned that implementing such measures without legal justification is both illegal and unconstitutional.<\/span><\/p>\n The Lagos State Government had earlier announced the return of the monthly sanitation exercise, encouraging residents to participate in efforts aimed at maintaining environmental cleanliness across the state.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Human rights lawyer, Ebun Olu-Adegboruwa, has strongly opposed the reintroduction of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise by the Lagos State Government, arguing that any form of movement restriction tied to the exercise lacks legal backing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11553,7128,138,11552,11551],"class_list":["post-26401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ebun-olu-adegboruwa","tag-human-rights-lawyer","tag-lagos","tag-movement-restrictions","tag-sanitation-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26406,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26401\/revisions\/26406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}