{"id":12248,"date":"2017-04-11T12:28:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T11:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=12248"},"modified":"2017-04-11T12:28:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T11:28:27","slug":"ajah-chieftaincy-family-sues-ambode-over-illegal-land-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/ajah-chieftaincy-family-sues-ambode-over-illegal-land-allocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajah chieftaincy family sues Ambode over illegal land allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Odugbese-Abereoje chieftaincy family of Ajah, Lagos State has filed an action before the High Court of Lagos State, seeking to nullify the allocation of their family land at Ajiwe, Lagos, by the Lagos State Government.<\/p>\n

In the suit filed on their behalf by activist lawyer, Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, the family is contending that the Lagos State Government is incompetent to allocate their land to a stranger, having secured a court judgment over the said land from the High Court of Lagos State against the same Lagos State Government.<\/p>\n

Sued as defendants in the case filed on April 10, 2017 are the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode; the Attorney General of Lagos State, Mr. Kazeem Adeniji, and Adeogun Ogunbona & Sons Ltd, to whom the land was allocated.<\/p>\n

The family is claiming that the Lagos State Government is not entitled to \u201callocate, assign, transfer or vest ownership of all that parcel of land situate and being at Ajiwe to Adeogun Ogunbona & Sons Ltd., which company is not a member of their family.\u201d<\/p>\n

In its supporting affidavit, the family stated that in 2015, the Odugbese-Abereoje family challenged the purported acquisition of 17.707 hectares of their family land before the High Court of Lagos State, and the court delivered judgment in their favour on March 14, 2016.<\/p>

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The Lagos State Government filed an appeal against the said judgment but no stay of execution was granted by the court.
\nWhile the appeal was still pending and yet to be determined, the government claimed to allot the land on November 26, 2016 to Adeogun Ogunbona Limited, which attempted to take over the land but was resisted by the family.<\/p>\n

The family is thus seeking an order of injunction to restrain the company from taking over the land to develop or build upon it pending the outcome of the case.<\/p>\n

In an affidavit deposed to by Chief Aruna Anofiu, the head of the Abereoje family, it was stated that the family is not willing to transfer its interest in the land to the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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