₦airaland Forum

The Family Head
Ojora Royal Family
16, Ojora Palace,
Ijora-Lagos.


Dear Sir,


RE: PURPORTED ATTEMPT TO FORCIBLY TAKE OVER DEVELOPED
PROPERTY LYING AND SITUATE AT 114/128 0JO ROAD AJEGUNLE LAGOS
IN VALID POSSESSION/OWNERSHIP OF OUR CLIENT IN GESTAPO AND
UNLAWFUL MANNER DEPRECATED BY LAW.


We act as Solicitors to the Surviving Children of ANTHONY EZEUDU and CHRISTOPHER OKOLI represented MRS JONES-NDUKA ANTHONIA EZEUDU(Nee- Ezeudu) and MR. GODWIN OKOLI
both of No 114/128 0jo Road, Ajegunle Lagos

Hereinafter jointly refered to as “Our Clientʺ and your cusomary tenant in respect of
the above mentioned parcel of land and we have their express unrequivocal instruction to
write you in respect of the above subject matter

Our client relably informed us with available document at their disposal,we have no cause to
disbelieve them that the land constituting the subject matter of this letter was granted
to their deceased father as customary tenant on or around 1955 upon whIch a Tenant Bungalow
was erected pursuant to building approval obtained on same couple with corresponding payment of annual rent in fulfillment of the customary obligation of our client's precedessor-in-title during his lifetime and after is demised one of his children continue to honoured the obligation of payment of the
annual rent until his untimely deathwhich subsequently created a vacum in the payment of the said annua rent.

Attached herein are marked as Annexture A, B and C are copies of receipts issued by
Chief Ajibola L.ODUNSI Ojora and The Ojora Chieftaincy Family Councl in
acknowledgement of payment of annual rent on the land validly occupy by our client
as your lawful customary tenant.

Predicated on the subsisting customary tenancy of our clients as encapsulated by
payment of annual rent, our client has EXCLUSIVE POSSESION and

OCCUPATION to the land in issue upon which their building was erected with rents
payment tenants in occupation till date and their right to EXCLUSIVE
POSSESSION/OWNERSHIP of the land and building therein cannt be overridden
or defeated by any subsequent grant by your family notwithstanding the alodial title
of your family to large expanse of land at Ijora and Ajegunle including the land of our
client. Whilst our client is not in anyway challenging your family title to the land
granted to them as their overlord, it is the contention of our client that their land and
and property cannot be unlawfully re-prossessed or forcefully taken over in gestapo
manner deprecated by law,more especially when our client have not committed any
GRAVE ACT to warrant this unjustifiable and condmable approach amounting to
SELF-HELP REMEDY.

Against the above stated position of settled law our client is however surprise,
shocked and greatly embarrassed when sometime in the second week of march 2024
some persons who identified themselves as member of Ojora Family and their cohorts
claiming to have the authority of his Royal Highness forcefully caused this inscription
to the following “THIS LAND BELONGS TO OJORA ROAL FAMILY,16,
OJORA PALACEʺ to be posted on the front wall of our client house in the absence
any COMPETENT ORDER OF COURT.

Moreover, we are further reliably informed that the above act of actionable trespass
was followed up by the recent invitation of our clients sitting tenants to the palace of
His Royal Highness by the same members of Ojora Family with warning to the tenants
to desist from further payment of rents to our client as their recognized landlord.

Our client claims sequel to this fact is that the present action of the family is
Condemnable capricious and amount to actionable TRESPASS to the EXCLUSIVE
POSSESSORY RIGHT/OCCUAPTION of our client which possession has not been
Validly determined by due process to warrant the threat, harrassment and avoidable
Intimidation of our client.

BE ADVISED that whilst our client respect and acknowledge the allodial family title to
the entire land mass in Ijora/Ajegunle including the land in issue our client shall
however use the instrumentality of law and due process to resist any act of
TRESSPASS in violation of the EXCLUSIVE RIGHT/POSSESSION/OWNERSHIP
of their property and sitting tenants as the itemized acts perpetrated by the family
member are at a variance with customary terms and conditions and the SELF-HELP
REMEDY being employed by the family has been deprecated by the Supreme Court in
the popular case GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE & ORS VS OJUKWU 2 ORS
(1986) LPELR-31869(SC).

BE WARNED that at the risk of repetition whilst our client is not challenging your

Over lordship position, our client shall however employed the instrumentality of the law
To abate any further act of harassment, intimidation actionable trespass and illegal
Self-help remedy targeted at forceful and Gestapo/brazen taken over of land/property
In their valid occupation and possession having not committed any grave act of
Misbehavior to justify the act and behavior of the family.

Without prejudice to the validity or otherwise of the challenged acts of few of the
Family members who have been indecently using the name of his Royal highness, it is
Our instruction to inform you that our client's is amenable to amicable ADR
Resolution of the issues necessitating questionable act of the family including payment
Of accumulated annual rent occasioned by the sudden death of the person paying same
In the past so that cordial and friendly overlord and customary tenant relationship
Subsisting between the parties can be continued unhindered devoid of litigation provided
Our client is given the opportunity to be heard through the ADR process proposed.

BE FURTHER INFORMED that our client as last resort shall be constrained to
Approach a court of competent jurisdiction to defend their possessory and
Occupational right against the family should the family fail and neglect to key into the
Opportunity provided by ADR processes for amicable resolution of this matter.

We shall appreciate timely consideration of our proposal for amicable resolution of this
Matter in the interest of our client and innocent third party interest involved as
Represented by the sitting tenants in the premises.




Yours faithfully,

PP: LANRE OLIYIDE & CO
OKUNOLA ADENIYI ESQ.