The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday fixed May 6 for judgment in a suit by activist-lawyer Mr Femi Falana against the Minister of Works Babatunde Fashola and the Federal Road Safety Commission .
He said such acts “constitute a threat to the fundamental right to life of the applicant and other motorists” as guaranteed by Section 33 of the 1999 Constitution and Article 4 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.Falana, a former Committee for the Defence of Human Rights National President, sued the defendants over the deplorable condition of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway.
In a supporting affidavit, the SAN, who was a former West African Bar Association President, said many of the federal roads across the country were in very bad shape, including the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway. According to him, commuters plying the road risk their lives due to the heavy-duty vehicles that are stranded on the road “due to the level of dilapidation”.
Falana said last February, while traveling back to his Ikeja office after a prison visit, he almost had an accident whilst navigating through a big gallop on the road and almost hit an oncoming vehicle. But, in its response, the Minister of Works denied Falana’s claims, saying the road “is under rehabilitation”, adding that it was not the cause of the gridlock in the axis.
In an Etopian society we need not go to Court before removing trillers from our roads, Nigerian society is confused.
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