Alimosho Local Government Council, Lagos State, has sued the state House of Assembly before a Federal High Court, Abuja, alleging undue and illegal interference in its activities.
In a copy of the summons obtained by our correspondent in Abuja, the Council asks the court to hold that the Assembly and the Speaker have no constitutional power to perform oversight functions over its activities, reports The Nation.
The plaintiff urged the court to hold that the state assembly cannot act as oversight over a democratically elected executive of a local government that has its own democratically elected legislative council.
Co-plaintiff in the suit is the Chairman of the council, Sulaimon Jelili, while the respondents included the State Assembly, the Speaker, Attorney-General of Lagos State, Inspector-General of Police, Lagos State Commissioner of Police and the State Security Service.
