An Ikeja High Court has struck out a suit filed by former governor of Lagos State Akinwunmi Ambode seeking to stop his probe by the State House of Assembly over the purchase of 820 buses for Bus Reform Project.
Ruling on the application by Ambode, Justice Yetunde Adesanya held that the ad-hoc committee set up to investigate Ambode was a fact-finding committee and not an indictment.
She emphasised that an invitation by an agency of government cannot in any way cause a breach of or threat to the fundamental rights of the claimant.
The judge further noted that 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.
Ambode instituted the civil suit against the State House of Assembly, its Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, and the Clerk of the House, Ahmed Sanni.
Other respondents to the suit are Fatai Mojeed, the Chairman of an ad-hoc committee set up by the House to probe the procurement of the buses, as well as eight members of the committee.
