LET THE GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTICE HEREBY THAT ALL THAT THE ENTIRE GINTI VILLAGE LAND ORIGINALLY BELONGED TO THE BANJOKO OGIDI FAMILY OF GINTI VILLAGE IN THE IKORODU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF LAGOS STATE.
FURTHER THAT THE 170 HECTARES OF GINTI LAND WAS ACQUIRED SOMETIMES IN THE 80’S BY THE LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT AND THEREAFTER FOR USE AS PUBLIC HOUSING SCHEMES AND AS PART OF EWU ELEPE RESIDENTIAL AND MILLENNIUM HOUSING SCHEMES WHILE THE REMAINDER THEREOF WAS EXCISED AS VILLAGE EXCISION TO ACCOMMODATE THE LANDOWNING FAMILY KNOWN AS BANJOKO OGIDI FAMILY, GINTI.
THE FOREGOING DEVELOPMENT TOOK PLACE MANY YEARS BACK SUCH THAT ISSUES AS TO GINTI VILLAGE LAND OWNERSHIP AND POSSESSION THEREOF IS LONG ENOUGH pro HAVE SEITLED THE ISSUE OF OWNERSHIP OF THE LAND IN FAVOUR OF THE BANJOKO OGIDI FAMILY AS WELL AS THE ACQUIRING AUTHORITY – LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR RESPECTIVE PRIVIES.
SURPRISINGLY, SOME ELEMENTS FROM OKE ELETU COMMUNITY LED BY CHIEF ABIODUN NOFIU OREBAJO RECENTLY BEGAN TO LAY A WRONGFUL CLAIM AS TO OWNERSHIP OF THE SAID LAND AND THEREBY DISTURBING THE HITHERTO PEACEABLE POSSESSION AND QUIET LAND HOLDING OF THE LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT AND THE ORIGINAL OWNER AS WELL AS THEIR PRIVIES.
CONSEQUENTLY, SUIT NO. 1KD/8079LMW/2019 BETWEEN CHIEF SIKIRU LAWANI OGIDI & 8 OTHERS VS. CHIEF ABIODUN NOFIU OREBAJO WAS COMMENCED WITH A VIEW TO VENTILATE THE CLAIMS/COUNTERCLAIM OF THE PARTIES IN THE SAID SUIT INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL OWNER AND THEIR PRIVIES AS WELL AS THE ALLOTTEES OF THE LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE 2 HOUSING SCHEMES AFORESAID VIS-Ä-VIS WHATEVER IS THE COUNTERCLAIM OF
THE DEFENDANT IN THE SAME SUIT.
ON THE 4TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2019 IN THE COURSE OF PROCEEDINGS IN THE ABOVE-NAMED LAWSUIT, THE ATTENTION OF THE HONOURABLE COURT WAS DRAWN TO THE UNLAWFUL ONGOING DEVELOPMENTS ON PORTIONS OF THE SUBJECT MAITER OF THE SUIT BY THE DEFENDANT AND HIS PRIVIES AND SINCE A FRESH APPLICATION WITH REGARDS TO JOINDER OF PARTIES WAS RECENTLY FILED TO STALL THE HEARING OF THE MOTION ON NOTICE FOR INTERLOCUTORY INJUNCTION IN THE SAID SUIT.
IT WAS THE FOREGOING DEVELOPMENT THAT INFORMED THE CLAIMANTS COUNSEL TO MAKE AN ORAL APPLICATION IN THE CIRCUMSTANCE FOR INTERIM ORDER OF INJUNCTION RESTRAINING THE PARTIES ON BOTH SIDES FROM CARRYING OUT ANY NEW DEVELOPMENT AND OR FROM CONTINUING WITH ANY ONGOING DEVELOPMENT ON THE LAND WHICH SAID ORDER WAS GRACIOUSLY MADE BY THE PRESIDING HONOURABLE JUDGE IN ORDER TO PRESERVE THE RES OR SUBJECT MAITER IN THE CIRCUMSTANCE.
IT IS THEREFORE NECESSARY FOR THE PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR ONGOING PROJECTS WITH RESPECT TO THE DISPUTED LAND TO BE WARNED NOT To ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION BY DISOBEYING THE SUBSISTING INTERIM ORDER OF INJUNCTION MADE BY HIS LORDSHIP – HONOURABLE JUSTICE L.B. LAWAL-AKAPO FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO CEASE FORTHWITH ON THE LAND PENDING THE HEARING OF THE MOTION ON NOTICE FILED BY THE CLAIMANTS COUNSEL.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE ISSUANCE OF THE SAID INTERIM ORDER OF INJUNCTION, SOME PERSONS WERE OBSERVED TO BE WORKING ON THE LAND SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS SUIT UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THUGS AND HOODLUMS IN THE SERVICE OF THE DEFENDANT AND HIS PRIVIES IN FLAGRANT DISOBEDIENCE OF THE COURT ORDER AFORESAID.
THIS PUBLIC NOTICE SERVES AS A FORMAL NOTICE TO YOU OF THE SAID SUBSISTING ORDER OF COURT AS WELL AS THE NEED FOR ALL PARTIES CONCERNED AND THEIR PRIVIES TO OBEY THE SAME RATHER THAN BE IN CONTEMPT OF COURT FOR REASON OF THE DISOBEDIENCE OF THE SAID COURT ORDER.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
DATED THIS 10TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2019.