{"id":23720,"date":"2018-05-18T16:26:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=23720"},"modified":"2018-05-18T16:26:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:26:17","slug":"its-legal-to-marry-in-ikoyi-registry-says-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/its-legal-to-marry-in-ikoyi-registry-says-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Legal To Marry In Ikoyi Registry, Says Fg"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Federal Government has faulted claims by the Lagos State Government that a Federal High Court had shut down the Ikoyi marriage registry, insisting that the report was false.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Interior said that the court, presided over by Justice Chuka Obiozor, simply upheld the judgment of a Federal High Court delivered in 2002, which was not appealed.<\/p>\n

It explained that the case, Suit No: FHC\/L\/CS\/1760\/16, between Egor Local Government Area, Edo State and three others Vs. Ministry of Interior & others, cited by the Lagos State Government, was actually struck out by Justice Obiozor in his judgment delivered on April 30, 2018.<\/p>\n

The Director of Legal, Ministry of Interior, Bola Odugbesan, made the clarification in a statement in Abuja on Friday, in reaction to a press statement on Thursday by the Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Local Government and Community Affairs, Bisi Olufuwa.<\/p>\n

Olufuwa had claimed that Lagos State had secured a court injunction restraining the Ikoyi registry from conducting marriages.<\/p>\n

Dismissing the claims, Odugbesan presented a copy of the judgment by Obiozor, who described the case as \u201can abuse of court process\u201d and struck it out.<\/p>\n

Checks by our correspondent also showed that the Lagos State Government was not a party to the suit.<\/p>

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Clarifying what transpired in the suit, Odugbesan said, \u201cIn the case, the court was invited to interpret the provisions of the Constitution conferring on local governments the powers to register marriages.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Minister of Interior, through his Counsel, Bola Odugbesan, argued that under item 61 of the Exclusive List, matters connected with marriage under the Marriage Act, issuing of marriage certificate and its registration are outside the purview of state and\/or local governments.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Federal High Court in its judgment dated April 30, 2018, struck out the case of the plaintiffs, i.e., Egor LGA & Ors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court held that the case is an abuse of the court process in view of the earlier judgment of the court in 2002, which upheld the sanctity of the rights of the minister to issue licences to places of worship to conduct marriages, and the registrar under the Marriage Act to register marriages.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is instructive to note that Lagos State was not a party in the case,\u201d the director explained.<\/p>\n

Odugbesan insisted that the Federal High Court never ordered the closure of Ikoyi Marriage Registry, as claimed by Olufuwa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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