By OLA AJAYI

IBADAN — FOUR days after some chiefs and other 48 families in Ibadan filed a suit against Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State over the acquisition of their land measuring 404.74 acres, the government said yesterday that it had acquired the land.

Speaking through the Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adebayo Ojo, who is one of the respondents in the case, the government alleged that those who filed the action against it had been disclaimed by the real heads and members of the concerned families “as impostors and fraudsters”.

According to the government, the suit was filed without the knowledge and authority of the original owners.

The government explained that the land in dispute, was acquired for the purpose of developing it into government reserved area, GRA.

It would be recalled that Baale Asaani Lasokun and Chief Kazeem Akintayo and Omo, Abaya, Kehinde, Odunjo, Ajia, Kadelu, Aregbeomo, Eleyele, Aboke, Abeni, amongst others, had approached the court to prevail on the government to release the land as advised by the Federal Government in a letter dated July 2012 with reference number LH/LA/62/Vol.1/102″.