Lockdown: Lagos opposes suit challenging Funke Akindele’s conviction

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The Lagos State Government has urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to dismiss a suit seeking to set aside the conviction of a popular actress, Funke Akindele, alias Jenifa, her husband, Abdulrasheed

Bello, and 236 others, who were prosecuted for violating the state’s lockdown and social distancing order to check the spread of COVID-19.

But a Lagos-based lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, had approached the court, challenging the constitutionality of the Lagos State Infectious Diseases Regulations 2020 pursuant to which Akindele, her husband and 236 other residents were convicted and sentenced. At the proceedings in the matter on Friday before Justice Maureen Onyetenu, the Lagos State Government, through its counsel, Jonathan Ogunsanya, said it had filed a preliminary objection, praying the court to dismiss Ogungbeje’s suit for lacking in merit. But Ogungbeje’s counsel, Fatai Adebanjo, requested for time to reply to the preliminary objection.

 

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