₦airaland Forum

A 92-year old Roseline Ololo has dragged Governor Akinwunmi Ambode before a Federal High Court in Lagos.
Mrs Ololo who founded Metropolitan College and Isolo Secondary School in Lagos wants the government to return these school back to her.
Premium Times reports that joined as respondents in the suit are the federal government, the attorney general of the federation, the minister of education, the Lagos state government, Lagos state attorney general and the Lagos state commissioner for education.
Mrs. Ololo asked the court to declare that the refusal by the state government to return her schools is unconstitutional, illegal and unlawful.

According to the affidavit, Mrs. Ololo and Mr. Akaihieobi, her husband (now deceased), moved from Eastern Nigeria to Lagos colony in 1940. Twelve years later, they incorporated a company, Akaix Africa Ltd, with which they established Metropolitan College.
“The school for about 18 years of existence, was located at No 15 Banire St., Surulere in a rented apartment.
“In 1966, before the Nigeria/Biafran Civil war, we purchased over 8.17 hectares of land at the Atire-akari Isolo area of Lagos.”

In 1974, they moved away from the thickly populated residential area of Surulere to the new site.
“In 1976, through the Education (Private Secondary Institutions Special Provisions) Law, the military government of Lagos state took over 48 private secondary schools from their owners, including Metropolitan College.
“In the process, Isolo Secondary School was carved out of Metropolitan College on the same expanse of land hosting the college,” she stated
In 2001, the administration of Bola Tinubu repealed the law and returned the 48 private schools to their owners. However, Metropolitan College was not returned to Mrs Ololo.
Therefore, she is praying the court for a declaration that the refusal of the respondents to return back her schools violated her constitutional rights to acquire and own landed properties.
A few months ago, Mrs Ololo wrote two separates letters to the governor and the police authorities threatening to embark on a massive protest at the Lagos state government house.
The elderly woman demanded to ensure the return of Metropolitan College and Isolo Secondary School to her or she would permanently occupy the governor’s office.
https://www.naij.com/789888-92-year-old-woman-drags-governor-ambode-court.html?source=index_main

ok.

Ambode plz do the needful and return it back for justice and fairness.


I will continue to pray for ambode cos he is a good guy and a real clubbing governor

I pray she is able to pursue this case to the logical end. All these wicked governments that like to convert people's property by force! Thieves!!!

Dis is serious!

Ambode pls kindly return the school to the old woman before some known thugs accuse you of victimizing their people

Hagm0nd:
Ambode pls kindly return the school to the old woman before some known thugs accuse you of victimizing their people

Thugs? That's an unnecessarily harsh word that smacks of a biased mindset....

This woman deserves justice.

Thug a violent person
yes!
do you know how many times ambode or other southwest leaders has been insulted because some tribal bigot decides to see through their murky heart
oh no!,i have no biased mindset i've just said it the way these people will see it

kenny987:
Thugs? That's an unnecessarily harsh word that smacks of a biased mindset....

lobatan

kenny987:
Thugs? That's an unnecessarily harsh word that smacks of a biased mindset....

Nnem, kee ebe igara? Oteela aka m'no nele anya gi. Ama m na nsogbu adigho?

paschu:
Nnem, kee ebe igara? Oteela aka m'no nele anya gi. Ama m na nsogbu adigho?

Mba o! Udo di nwannem. Ahu a dikwa?

kenny987:
Mba o! Udo di nwannem. Ahu a dikwa?

Mhhh. Ngwanu nne m, ekene diri chukwu. Anyi no mma. Ike chukwu kariri ike buhari.

Justice be done