A Lagos State High Court has dismissed a suit by former Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, to stop the State House of Assembly from probing him.
Justice Yetunde Adesanya ruled on Thursday that the ad-hoc committee set up to investigate Mr Ambode was a fact-finding committee not an indictment.
Ambode had prayed the court for an order to restrain the lawmakers from probing his purchase of 820 buses.
“The claimant (Ambode) has not been indicted. An invitation by an agency of government cannot in any way cause a breach of the threat of the fundamental rights of the claimant,” the judge said.
“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.”
