Oladimeji RamonActivist lawyer, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has warned the police against restricting human and vehicular movements on election days, saying it is unconstitutional. According to him, the Federal High Court in Lagos had in 2014 pronounced that such movement restriction was unconstitutional. The lawyer noted that despite the constitutional provisions and the pronouncement of the court, the Inspector-General of Police had on Friday, February 15, ahead of the postponed presidential election, announced the restriction of human and vehicular movements for 12 hours. He complained that despite that the movement restriction was illegal, the police did not consider it needful to lift the movement restriction even after the election was postponed. Adegboruwa warned the police against a repeat of the movement restriction order on the new election dates.

Source: Punch February 17, 2019 16:52 UTC