By Ebun Sessou

Lagos—Residents of Labora Owode in Ibeju- Lekki yesterday staged a protest at the Lagos State House of Assembly, asking the lawmakers to save them from hoodlums who had taken over their land.

According to them, the hoodlums, in spite of court injunctions and several complaints and petitions to the police high command had forced them out of their land and rendered them homeless.

The residents, who were led by Messers. Babatunde Olumegbon, Moshood Lanrewaju Rasaq, Chief Najeem Fatai, Ismaila Asimu Fatai, Molikiu Ganiyu, Ademola Samuel, among others, displayed various placards, condemning the attitude of the hoodlums.

According to them, the hoodlums, who they could not identify or whose sponsors they knew not, stormed the community with well over 10,000 settlers in January, wielding dangerous weapons, including guns and cutlasses, with which they attacked people indiscriminately.

Speaking, Rasaq, who serves as the community’s lawyer and also a member of Agbon Busari Royal Family in the area, stated that the hoodlums stormed the  community in January, scaring the people with guns and cutlasses, while they carried out attacks on many residents.

Rasaq, who said that the hoodlums were unknown faces, declared that, “We don’t know them. In court, we have sued unknown people.”

The protesters were yet to be attended to by the leadership of the House as at press time.