Residents Support Fashola
The Baale-elect of Ijagemo Onitigo Orodu, Chief Hakeem Babatunde Balogun, has debunked a recent publication in one the local newspapers entitled Halt demolition of our properties, Ijagemo residents tell Fashola, credited to one Mr. Iyiola Amzat as leader of Befu community in Iba Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, saying the man cannot lay claim to be a community leader in the area because he is not an indigene of Ijagemo has the tribal marks on his face have given him out as an indigene of Osun State.
According to Baloun, the people of Ijagemo support the state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola on his effort to transform the area with the location of Iba New Housing Estate in Befu as part of his mega city project.
According to Balogun, a letter written on 24 July, 1996 to the President, Electric Power Workers Cooperative Tariff and Loan Society Limited, testified to the fact that Befu land belongs to all the five families in Ijagemo.
The signatories to the letter demanding the balance of N1.4 million from the electricity union, he said, was signed by the following representatives of the five families: Chief H.O. Balogun Akanji, Mr. Tunde Ishola Lamidi, Alhaji Sabitu Ade Ajanaku, Mr. George Segun Alfred and Waidi S. Idowu Agba Bada.
“We are in full support of the new effort of our ever ubiquitous governor of Lagos State to provide abundant opportunities to our teeming populace including our children and liberate our land from backwardness, abject poverty and neglect in poverty,†he said, while restating that five recognised families in Ijagemo are Ajakaiye, Ashipa, Awoja, Ajanaku and Bada, who jointly sold 200 plots of Befu land to the Electric Power Workers Cooperative Thrift and Loan Society Limited and do not, in any way, confer the right of community leadership of Befu on the said Iyiola Amazat or any non indigene.
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