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October 16, 2011

IG probes Lagos village land case

By Tina Ogbebor

The Office of the Inspector General of Police IGP is looking into the 21-year old Ilamoshe village land case in Ejigbo area of Lagos State which was settled at both the High Court and the Court of Appeal and the judgement recently executed.

A Chief Superintendent of Police, Mr. Bunmi Osoko from the SEB, Force CID, FHQ Abuja (Area 10), invited some representatives of the judgment creditors and executors of judgement on the land to Abuja for questioning.

Mr. Lekan Odunsi, the lawyer representing the judgment creditors, disclosed that the invitation of three representatives of the judgment creditors/executors was instigated by those who lodged complaint at the Office of the IG and misled the police about the issues on ground on the execution of the judgement of the courts.

Odunsi said those who lodged the complaint “concealed the fact from that they had been adjudged as trespassers by the courts in a litigation that spanned over 21 years.”

The counsel requested from the IG the presence of mobile police men to maintain law and order in the area.