Ashamu Estate Crisis: Agent Threatens To Sue Radio Station
The protracted crisis over the ownership of the vast land of Oke-Afa Isolo, Lagos State, adjudged by the Supreme Court to belong to the late Emmanuel Ashamu has taken a new dimension.
The accredited agent to the Ashamu family, Chief Teslimi Adeola Almaroof has threatened to sue a Lagos-based federal radio station and producer of a Yoruba programme “Gbangbadekun,†for allegedly maligning his reputation over the estate.
He alleged that despite his explanations that he did not trespass on any land belonging to the Ishoru family of Isolo, the producer of the programme, had on several occasions portrayed him as a land speculator who derives joy in encroaching on lands, without giving him a fair hearing as entrenched in the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Chief Almaroof had persistently explained that his presence on the land was based on his appointment as the sole accredited agent of the Ashamu family and approved by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Chief Afe Babalola, following a judgement of the Supreme Court.
He also dismissed the claim of the members of Ishoru family that there was a court injunction restraining him from taking over the vast land. He described the claim as “mischievous, frivolous and fabrication of lies.”
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