Company restrained from building on disputed property

A Lagos High Court sitting in Epe has ordered a Lagos-based firm, Toll System Development Company Limited, to stop further development on a family land in Oko-Olomi, Ibeju Lekki.
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The trial judge, Justice Jubril Bashua, in his ruling on a ex-parte motion, restrained the company and its agents to stop further work on the land, noting that the order of interim injunction will subsist, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction.

The motion was filed by Mr. Bamidele Ogundele on behalf of Baale of Oko-Olomi, Chief Lateef Moridiu Adekunle and the Eleku family of Oko-Olomi, against the company and three others.

Also, the court restrained the comapany’s “agents and privies led by one land warrior/agent, Chief Mutairu Owoeye from embarking on construction of any structure on the claimants’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.”

He 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, pending the hearing and determination of application for mandatory injunction.

The court also ordered law enforcement agents 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 where the res may be irrevocably destroyed or damaged and granted the prayers of the claimants.

Meanwhile, the claimants have urged the federal and state governments to help enforce the court order and appealed to Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) and retired Justice of the Supreme Court, George Oguntade to help prevail on the company to withdraw and stop further construction on the land.