2nd February, 2011
The Aboki Lawani Family of Ishawo have dragged six people including the village head, David Olalekan Orisan to a Lagos High Court over a landed property worth millions of naira.
The plaintiffs are asking the defendants to render account on the property.
Others named as defendants in the suit instituted at the Ikorodu judicial division are three community leaders in the area, Hon. Kabiru Afolabi Bada, Samuel Olujimi Owojuigbe, Enitan Orisan, Alhaji Ambe Dagunodo and Madam Ebudola Rotinwa.
The plaintiffs are Alhaja Idayat Bada, Madam Kehinde Bada, Alhaja Sekinat Bada, Kareem O. Enifeni, Madam Ganiyat Bada, Kadijat Bada, Sanya Lamidi Bada and Mohammed Bada.
In the writ of summons filed by the law firm of John Olowo, the claimants are seeking, among others, a court declaration that the defendants are not entitled to sale the claimants’ family land at Ishawo, a new town near Ikorodu in Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State.
Other reliefs sought include a declaration that the conduct of the defendants in relation to the claimants’ land, whereby the defendants sold the land and shared the proceeds among themselves without including the claimants was wrong and unfair.
They are also seeking an injunction compelling the defendants to remit to the claimants the sum of N150,000,000, being the proceeds of sale of family land at Ishawo on behalf of the claimants.
The claimants are also seeking an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, their servants, agents and privies from further sale of the land.
In the writ, the defendants have been directed to within 42 days after the writ, file an appearance in court.
The claimants stated that till date the defendants have failed and refused to render a comprehensive statement of account of proceeds of the family land, adding that one of the defendants collected over N10 million as proceeds of both sale and ratification of the claimants’ land.
