Ondo Based Lawyer Charges Mimiko To Court Over Imposition Of Residency Card On Residents

A human rights activist and lawyer, Morakinyo Ogele,
has brought the Ondo State government to the High
Court sitting in Akure over mandate that all State
citizens have a Residency Card, known as Card Igbeayo.

Ogele made the charge through case file number:
Ak/44M/2015 exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters.
The case file revealed that the beleaguered Governor,
Olusegun Mimiko, and his Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General, Eyitayo Jegede, were joint
defendants in the suit.

Already the High Court has fixed Tuesday, September
22, 2015, for the case hearing.
The Government of Ondo State, under the embattled
Governor Mimiko, made the Residency Card
compulsory for people in the State, especially the
workforce in its civil service.

The government said without the card no resident
would be able to enjoy or access the dividends of
democracy, especially healthcare service and basic
infrastructures.

However, in his suit, Ogele argued that it is unlawful
for the State Government to impose the Residency
Card on the residents of the State.
He declared the actions of the Governor Mimiko-led
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government as null
and void.

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The suit obtained by Sahara Reporters reads in part:
"A declaration that the demand for Residency Card
(Kadi Igbeayo) by the respondents from all residents
residing in Ondo State before having access to
government utilities, infrastructures and amenities to
Wit: Primary schools, secondary schools, secondary
schools, state polytechnic, state universities, hospitals and maternities is unconstitutional, null and void, crude, unprogressive and retrogressive and is contrary to section 18 (1) 42 (1) of 1999 constitution
as amended.

"A perpetual injunction restraining the 1st and 2nd
respondents from demanding Residency Cards from
residents of Ondo State before having access to public utilities and amenities and all category of hospitals maternities and schools.

"That the introduction of this Residency Cards met with a sundry of criticism from all residents of the State as they viewed the Residency Cards as oppressive, retrogressive, and crude.
"That the State government further came out and
announced that unless the residents obtain this card
they will be deprived of having access to government
utilities infrastructure and amenities built with the peoples' money.

"That equally when the pupils and students resumed
on September 14, they were not allowed to resume to
their classes as they failed to produce the Residency
Card of their parents.

"That the cost of a Residency Card is ₦2000 is unaffordable to the majority of parents. The respondents are only out to oppress and place another burden on the poor masses.

"That Residency Cards have nothing to do with the
population of Ondo State as the census has provided
for the population of each state in Nigeria.”

Meanwhile, sources told our correspondent that pupils and students in public primary and secondary
schools in some local areas of the state were being
denied registration.

According to these sources, the action was as a result
of a failure to produce the duplicate of their parents’
Residency Card at the point of entrance.

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