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African Bar Association has threatened to sue Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State before the ECOWAS Court and the African Court of Human Right in Tanzania, ”if the government refuses to listen to the appeal of people rendered homeless by the state”.
Hannibal Uwaifo, the association’s president, said this at a press conference in Lagos Tuesday.
He urged the governor to resettle displaced residents of Oke-Egan Community, Ibeju-Lekki Local Government, following demolition of their houses by the state government.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the community, during a protest to the Lagos State House of Assembly, alleged that the state’s Task Force on Physical Planning had on February 9 demolished about 400 houses without formal notice.
Jonathan, other ex-African presidents for honour
Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe
The African Bar Association says it has secured the agreement of former President Goodluck Jonathan and two other ex-African Presidents to attend and make contributions at its conference holding in Niamey, Niger Republic mid next year.
The President of AfBA, Hannibal Uwaifo, in a statement, said the 2018 Nobel Prize winner, Dr Denis Mukegwe, of the Democratic Republic of Congo, would deliver the keynote address at the conference with the theme, ‘Setting an Agenda for Transformative Change in Africa: Addressing Accountability in Criminal Armed Conflicts Terrorism in the Sahel and burning contemporary issues.’