BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS
DECEMBER 08, 2017

The Lagos State Government yesterday filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal in Lagos seeking to set aside the ruling of an Ikeja High Court in Lagos, which held that the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011 is applicable to the state even without its domestication.

Justice Oke-Lawal had in the ruling dismissed a preliminary objection raised by the state government and the ministry to Media Rights Agendas suit and held that the FOI Act was validly made by the National Assembly and applicable to the government of the federation as well as state governments.

The government and the ministry are asking the Appeal Court to set aside the lower courts ruling and dismiss the suit filed against them by MRA to compel compliance with a Freedom of Information request made by the organization in November 2016 to the ministry asking, among other things, for details and copies of plans put in place by the ministry to provide the Araromi Zion Estate located in Akiode Area of Ojodu Local Council Development Area (LCDA) with health care services; the timeframe for the implementation of the plans, as well as details of the budgets and costs estimates for the implementation of the plans, if any.

Independent Newspapers Limited

https://independent.ng/lagos-appeals-court-verdict-foi-act/

Okay.

Fxmanager:
Okay.

Quite sad really