Justice Yetunde Adesanya of an Ikeja High Court has struck out a suit filed by former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State seeking to stop his probe by the state Assembly over purchase of 820 buses for the state’s Bus Reform Project.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Adesanya gave the ruling on Thursday.
She said the ad-hoc committee set up to investigate Ambode was a fact-finding committee, adding that an investigation is not an indictment.
She held: “The claimant (Ambode) has not been indicted.
“An invitation by an agency of government cannot in anyway cause a breach of the threat of the fundamental rights of the claimant.
“I hereby find that the claimant’s action is an invitation to the court to cripple the legislative exercise of the statutory power of the Lagos State House of Assembly under Section 128 and 129 of the 1999 Constitution.
“That is not the function of the court, and no court of law should accede such invitation.
“The claimant’s suit is hereby struck out.”
NAN reports that Ambode had instituted the civil suit against the State House of Assembly; its Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa; and the House Clerk, A.A. Sanni.
Other respondents are Fatai Mojeed, Chairman of the Ad-hoc Committee set up by the House to probe the procurement of the buses, and eight members of the committee.
