An Oyo State High Court, on Friday, ordered the immediate reopening of the over 100 houses, church, school and business centres that were forcefully put under lock and key by some gun-wielding land grabbers last week Thursday in Ibadan, the state capital.

DAILY POST gathered that the structures belonging to residents of Ekerin layout, behind Abe Technical College/New Garage/Akala expressway in Oluyole Local Government Area of Ibadan were locked by the land grabbers last week.

The affected residents, many of whom had fled the area for fear of being attacked by the land grabbers who laid siege to their property and put their gates under lock and key, stormed the court in the early hours of Friday and secured the nod of Justice O. M. Olagunju who, in his ruling, ordered that all the affected buildings be unsealed immediately to allow fleeing residents regain their property.

The land grabbers, accompanied by some policemen last week gained entry into the property in the area and took them over, following an alleged court order dated October 31, 2018 in the suit number 1/567/84 purportedly authorising them to take possession of the disputed lands in the area.

However, in his ruling on Friday, Justice Olagunju declared that in the action filed by the plaintiffs against the defendants, there was no counterclaim.

He added that the dismissal of the plaintiff’s case did not, therefore, confer any right on the defendants and ordered that all sealed houses be immediately unsealed.

The residents who have been living on the land and whose houses were sealed by the defendants based on the execution of the court judgment filed the applications to set aside the execution.

Counsel to one of the residents, Toyese Owoade told journalists that, “A court of Justice is expected to dispense justice to all citizens regardless of his or her status in the society and that is why it is generally said that where there is a wrong, there is a remedy.

“The judgment of the court as rightly noted by the court did not confer any right on the defendants who levied execution”.

“It is trite law that in such circumstance where there is no positive order of court granting possession, a party has no right to apply for warrant for possession”.

However, all efforts to get the reaction of the defence counsel, Bolarinwa Lawal proved abortive as he was not available for comment as at the time journalists were leaving the court.

http://mcebiscoo.com/2018/12/01/court-orders-reopening-of-100-houses-school-church-locked-by-land-grabbers-in-ibadan/

The court intervened on time. How I wish we could have speedy dispensation of justice. It will go a long way in helping the aggrieved and seeker of justice.

Perfect decision

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They are lucky it gets sorted fast

Correct

As if court has meaning in Nigeria. They are just noise makers

Na wa ooooo.

Good way to go

Thank God for this! These land grabbers almost took over my estate last year, locking up over 60 buildings! Wicked souls. The bad news is that the governor and some of his people seem to be interested in these lands, especially the ones along the new express

Sunday igbowoooooo is the man behind this one oh.. imagine a thug locking up properties with policemen .political thugs no g fr t joy but they re loaded cash wise. Common thug slapped a professor oh

satowind:
As if court has meaning in Nigeria. They are just noise makers

pray you don't find yourself in a court of law, where the judgement will not be in your favor, then you will understand how powerful the court is

Sophisticated people and land grabbing are like G boys and rituals, from Oyo, Ogun, Osun and Lagos state the land grabbing capital of the world where the highly established omonile syndicate connive with specialized omonile judges to swindle unsuspecting victim of their hard earned property.

There are those that specialise in selling the so-called family land and another cartel that appears to contest the matter in court comprising of mainly old men in collusion with corrupted omonile judges with ancient documents which they repeatedly use for such coordinated heist.

If you know you know!

Most worst is these land grabbers were same person who has parted away with some of the money paid on the land and yet the court still win the property for them in pure fraud

This is different


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walemoney007:
pray you don't find yourself in a court of law, where the judgement will not be in your favor, then you will understand how powerful the court is

noise makers you know how many of their ruling have been disobeyed by the executive and nothing happened

People say buy a house in Oyo. I say no. It's becoming Lagos day by day. I think Ogun state is the future because it's attracting large industries (but not having strong anti pollution laws though)