The Federal Capital Territory Administration has dismissed reports alleging that a court order halted environmental services and food safety enforcement sittings across the FCT.
In a statement issued on Thursday, the Legal Officer of the FCTA Public Health Department, Idris Suleiman, described the circulating claims as “completely false and misleading.”
According to the department, the order delivered by Justice Yusuf Halilu of the FCT High Court in Motion No. M/7935/2026 only restrained proceedings relating to a case filed by H-Medix Pharmacy Limited against the FCTA Health and Human Services Secretariat and six others.
The department clarified that the ruling did not stop the Public Health Department’s broader enforcement operations or food safety court sittings within the territory.
It therefore urged residents and business operators to ignore reports suggesting a total suspension of environmental health enforcement activities in the FCT.