The state government in the court paper documented under the steady gaze of the Lagos High Court, contended that it was unlawful for the Federal Government possessed registry to do marriage rituals when it is lawfully the privilege of State Government and the Local Governments.
The judgment conveyed by Professor Chuka Aunstine Obiozor with the reference number SUIT NO: FHC/L/CS/1760/16 and which produced results on Monday 30th April 2018, reaffirmed that all the marriage registries in the Local Government and Local Council Development Areas in Lagos are the real and legitimately restricting government division set up to complete such capacity in the state.
Tending to a Press Conference on the court judgment today Thursday May seventeenth, the Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Muslim Folami, said the Ministry was currently authoritatively conveying the improvement to the different international safe havens in the State. He included that the choice of the court was incomparable and was legitimately authoritative on all foundations in the express, the government offices comprehensive.
The magistrate went ahead to state that the judgment would without a doubt put a stop to the appearing observation that weddings that occur in Ikoyi registry are prevalent.
"We will utilize the five divisions over the state to sharpen our kin and illuminate them about this most recent advancement. From Epe to Ikorodu, Badagry, Ikeja and Lagos Island. The refinement walk which we set out on today is likewise a method for making mindfulness and telling the general population of this most recent advancement'' he said
Likewise talking at the question and answer session, the President for Marriage Registrars in all LGs/LCDAs in Lagos state, Deji Sokeye, said the unlawful utilization of energy by the Ikoyi Registry had genuinely and adversely influenced the income drive of the different Councils in the State. Sokeye reviewed that a comparable judgment was conveyed for the state government in 2004 however was ignored by the government.
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