A Lagos-based legal practitioner, Mr. Ebun Olu-Adegboruwa, who has been at the forefront to abolish the Lagos Lekki toll fee has filed a fresh suit at the Federal High Court in Lagos.

The lawyer sued the Lekki Concession Company, the Lagos State Government, the Inspector General of Police, the head of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Task Force, CSP Hakeem Odumosu, the financiers and sponsors of the Lekki Road Project, African Development Bank and its Manager, Mr. Joseph Tighgang.

In the suit, seeking to enforce his fundamental human rights agains all six persons, Mr. Adegboruwa has asked the court for a declaration that the acts of the respondents in dispersing, chasing, beating and shooting of live bullets and tear gas canisters, brutalization of persons, journalists and other residents of the Lekki Epe Axis at their gathering, rally at the Admiralty Plaza.

The protest, which took place on 17 December 2011, was set upon by police officers and the activist calls the ill-treatment by the police a flagrant violation of their fundamental rights as guaranteed under the 1999 constitution and certain articles of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ rights.

Mr. Adegboruwa also wants the court to declare that the arrest of journalists and residents of the area on account of their gathering in opposition to the toll policy is illegal.

He wants the court to grant an injunction restraining the six respondents from violating or further violating the fundamental rights of the Applicant, journalists and other residents of the Lekki-Epe axis through unlawful invasion, arrest and detention.

The activist is also directing the respondents to forthwith release, return, handover and surrender to the Applicant, other residents of the Lekki-Epe axis and journalists, all personal and business items such as money, clothes, cameras, or any other implement of trade forcefully taken from them by the respondents.

Mr. Adegboruwa also asked the court for N1 billion, being special, aggravated, punitive and general damages against the Respondents, jointly and severally for their violation of the fundamental rights of the applicant, journalists and other residents of the Lekki-Epe axis.

The suit is yet to be assigned to any judge