CDHR Wants Tenancy Law Reviewed

The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) Lagos State branch, has called on the Governor Fashola administration to review it’s new tenancy law.

The group made the call at a session to harmonize the opinion of its members from each unit of the 20 local government and 37 local council development areas in the state, held recently.

The Lagos CDHR through its Secretary General, Buna Isiak, stated that the Central Working Committee, after harmonizing the reports received from all the units concluded that though a people-oriented government that cares for the well-being of the citizenry should move to regulate housing as part of the basic necessities in every society, but that the state government lacks the moral justification for such position.

Comrade Deji Adebowale, the group chairman said, “the state government is only trying to be strategically diversionary in the character of the class interest it represents.

“Normally, capitalism cannot be talking of democracy because it is the rule of the minority over the majority.”

The group also referred to Section 1, sub-Section 3 of the law which reflected the creation of a privileged class by the exemption of certain areas in the state from the application of the law.

CDHR called for an immediate review of the law to make it generally effective to conform with the proposed social order as enshrined in the Nigeria constitution which is based on equity and justice.

The group advised the state government to always test the acceptability of all proposed bills by the generality of the people before passing it into law.

—Paul Sanusi