By Innocent Anaba

lagos—The Oloto of Otto, Lagos Mainland, Oba Ganiyu Odesanya, has sued his family’s former lawyer and seven others before a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, over a disputed 5.708 hectares of land situate at Oke-Alo, along Ilupeju, Gbagada/Oworonsoki Express Way, Lagos.

In suit, the monarch on his own behalf and his family is asking the court to among others, declare the Oloto Royal Family the owner entitled to a Statutory Right of Occupancy over the land with Survey Plans Nos. FAN/LA/295/2001 and OY295/37/2002/LA.

Other defendants are Mukaila Oseni (for himself and on behalf of Adams/Esu family), Chief Lasisi Arubo for himself and for Alase family), Diya Fatimilehin & Co, Lagos State governor, state Attorney-General, Commissioner of Housing and Rilwan Dawodu.

The claimant in his amended statement by Bolaji Mustapha, stated that the 5.708 hectares covered by Survey Plan No. LS/D/LKJ 1876, was excised to it by the state Government from their original plot measuring 54.856 hectares.

He said that he was represented by the seventh defendant, Dawodu, in the negotiations for out-of-court settlement initiated by the fourth, fifth and sixth defendants, alleging  that Dawodu refused to make the Terms of Settlement available to him on the grounds that it had yet to be signed by the other parties, which was later found to be untrue.

He stated that the seventh defendant, purporting to represent the Oloto Royal family, connived with the first to sixth defendant and gave part of the 5.708 hectares to the first to third defendants.