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Dissatisfied with the processes adopted by the Lagos State House of Assembly in the amendment of the Lagos Land Use Charge (LUC) Law 2018, the
Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja branch, today walked out of the public hearing.
Also, the Joint Action Forum (JAF) and its members led by the chairman, Abiodun Aremu, left the sitting, and vowed to return to the streets on Thursday, March 29, in continuation of their protests against “anti-people law”.
Ogunlana Adesina, chairman, NBA, Ikeja branch, before the commencement of deliberations at the sitting, had demanded the postponement of the public hearing, citing what it called a 24-hour notice, sent to the association, which he claimed was too short.
Adesina also argued that the law to which the stakeholder had been invited to make inputs, had not been made available to the people, despite the NBA making a request to this effect, to the office of the speaker of the House, Mudaishiru Obasa.
On this basis, he sought the House to postpone the public to early weeks of April, after the Easter holidays, and first make the law sufficiently available.
Adesina said “we can’t make any meaningful inputs into a law that that has not been made available to us. What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.”
Obasa, the speaker of the House, however, persuaded the NBA to allow the sitting proceed, arguing that the issues in contention in the law, which drew the flaks of the public, were well known.
But his arguments failed to pacify the civil society and the NBA, as they staged a walk out from the public hearing.
More details later…
Joshua Bassey
