A Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, said he has secured an order of interim injuction from a Lagos State High Court, stopping the Lagos State Government from going ahead with any plan to privatise the probate arm of the state high court.

A statement by the lawyer on Friday said Justice A.M. Lawal of the Tarfawa Balewa Square Division of the high court granted the order following an ex parte application moved by him to the effect.

The probate court deals with issues relating to wills and properties belonging to deceased persons.

At the instance of Adegboruwa, Lawal was said to have restrained the Lagos State Government and its agents “from removing, excising, privatising, taking away, outsourcing or taking over the functions and powers conferred on the High Court of Lagos State, in relation to probate matters, pending the hearing and final determination of the motion on notice.”

The judge also reportedly barred the Lagos State House of Assembly from making, enacting, considering or deliberating upon or taking any action towards the privatisation of the probate arm of the state high court.

Adegboruwa said he made the move after he got the wind of the plan by the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, acting in concert with the House of Assembly, to commercialise or outsource the probate arm of the state high court to private managers.

Claiming that the probate is a major part of his practice, Adegboruwa told Lawal that if the Lagos State Government was not stopped from outsourcing the probate to private managers, he would lose clients and be shut out of business.

The lawyer, who noted that the probate court had always been under the authority of the Chief Judge of the state right from time, argued further that taking it over was tantamount to the executive usurping the power of the judiciary or meddling in its independence.

Fashola trying so hard to extend Tinu u's rogue empire since 1520bc

Jimi Agbaje has won lagos state

peleson:
Jimi Agbaje has won lagos state

everybody knows the elections in Lagos are a formality to fulfil all righteousness. I've sent Agbaje a proposal for the supply of toothpaste and chewing stick to Tinubu so as to reduce the pollution of Lagos air space by his mouth odour

This is just too much for Lagosians to bear this monsterous, monumental rogue system of government as introduced by Tinubuharam.

Where is fashola's conscience?

This is one of the reasons why PDP remains the best for now.

Lagosians and Nigerians, please vote wisely.... Vote PDP at all levels.

Vote GEJ.
Vote JIMI AGBAJE.
Vote PDP.

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