agbodemu & ors v. lagos state environmental sanitation enforcement agency & ors (m/710/2011)
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Judgment of March 5 2012 in case of four urban poor communities (Otto Ilogbo, Otto Central, Otto Rail Line, and Ilaje Otumara) in Lagos, Nigeria in their fight to resist demolition by the Lagos State Government. Justice O. O. ‘Femi Adeniyi of the Lagos State High Court ruled that the Environmental Sanitation Law of 2001 -- the law typically relied on by the Lagos State agencies carrying out demolitions and forced evictions -- does not authorize demolitions.TRANSCRIPT
