Illegal possession: Court restrains coy from community land
A Lagos High Court sitting in Epe has restrained a Lagos-based company, Toll System Development Company Limited from any further construction on a family land in Oko-Olomi, Ibeju Lekki.
Justice Jubril Bashua granted the interim injunction pending the hearing and determination of the motion of notice for interlocutory injunction filed by the Baale of Oko-Olomi, Chief Lateef Moridiu Adekunle and the Eleku family of Oko-Olomi against the company and three others.
The court also gave an order, restraining the company’s “agents and privies led by one land warrior/agent Alhaji Chief Mutairu Owoeye from embarking on construction of any structure on the community’s land measuring 96.492 hectares more particularly described in area verged blue in survey plan no: AOO/793/015/2016/LA at Oko Olomi village”.
In his ruling on an ex-parte motion filed by the Eleku family, through their counsel, Bamidele Ogundele,, Justice Bashua, also granted an order of interim injunction mandating the company which is the first defendant in the suit, its agents and privies to remove all thugs and hoodlums on the claimants’ land as in the survey plan pending the hearing and determination of application for mandatory injunction.
However, the court also ordered law enforcement agency to assist in giving effect to the order.
The judge noted the averments in the affidavit in support of the ex-parte motion and pointed out that interim injunction is usually granted in cases of extreme urgency whereby there may be irrevocably destroyed or damaged and granted the prayers of the claimants.
The claimants in the suit, the Baale of Oko-Olomi, Chief Adekunle and the Eleku family of Oko-Olomi, in Ibeju-Lekki have appealed to the federal and state governments to help enforce the court order removing a Lagos firm, Toll System Development Company Limited from their land.
They also urged legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola and eminent jurist, Justice George Oguntade (rtd.) to intervene and appeal to the company put an end to further construction on their land.
