Nigeria, July 1 -- Several lawyers and activists have reacted to the demand by the Lagos State House of Assembly for streets, buildings, monuments and other public properties named after colonial masters to be renamed.

The lawyers and activists, who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday, differed in their opinions to the move by the Lagos lawmakers.

The lawmakers in a unanimous vote on Tuesday adopted a motion calling on Babajide Sanwo-Olu to direct the Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture to liaise with the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice to look at the Listed Sites (Prevention) Law, 2015, with a view to removing all vestiges of slave trade and colonialism.

Constitutional backing

Olukoya Ogungbeje, a Lagos-based law...