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Falana urges Lagos residents to ignore movement restriction for sanitation

Saturday, April 25, 2026

Senior lawyer Femi Falana says Lagos’s monthly environmental‑sanitation drive has no legal authority to restrict residents’ movement, urging people to go about their daily activities as usual. He warns against complying with any unofficial curfew, emphasizing that no law mandates such limits.

Femi Falana has urged residents of Lagos State to disregard any restriction of movement linked to the monthly environmental sanitation exercise, insisting that there is no legal basis for limiting citizens’ movement during the period. The senior advocate maintained that residents are free to go about their normal activities, stressing that no law currently enforces […] Falana urges Lagos residents to ignore movement restriction for sanitation