Since Bi-Courtney is not working on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway -Abeg Revoke License

Two human rights activists, Messrs Olawale Fapounda and Richard Akinnola, have asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos  to  revoke the concession agreement between the Federal Government and Bicourtney Highway Services over allegation of non performance and “incessant destruction of lives and property along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.”

The plaintiffs, who listed Legal Resources Consortium as the third plaintiff,  are asking for an order of mandatory injunction compelling the Federal Government to immediately repair and maintain the Lagos-Ibadan expressway “sequel to their obligations, legal and statutory duties so as to stem or curb the incessant traffic gridlock and destruction of lives and property on the expressway.”

Joined as defendants in the suit are the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Minister of Works, his counterpart in the Ministry of Justice, Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA, and  Bicourtney Highway Services Limited.

The plaintiffs are praying the court to declare that “the failure and or refusal of the 5th Defendant (Bicourtney Ltd) in executing the contract four years after its award amounts to abandonment and ought to be struck down and revoked.”

Also they urged the court to declare that “the incessant accidents and destruction of lives and property are a direct consequence of the negligence and willful refusal of the 5th Defendant in executing the concession agreement four years after its award.”

In addition, they are praying the court to declare that the government has “abandoned, shirked, abdicated their legal and statutory obligations to repair and maintain the Lagos- Ibadan expressway, thereby occasioning traffic gridlock and destruction of lives and property.”