Alleged Unlawful Land Trespass: Don’t Be Used, GKS Properties Urges IGP, KAI Officials

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Alleged Unlawful Land Trespass: Don’t Be Used, GKS Properties Urges IGP, KAI Officials

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 The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase and officials of the Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI), have been told not to allow themselves to be used for the purposes of interference in disputes that are land oriented, especially when there are pending cases in court. Addressing a press conference on the unlawful and extra-judicial trespass and forcible seizure of GKS landed properties at Gbagada Industrial Scheme Phase II Block B Plot Parcels 3&4, the representative of the GKS properties, Navy Commander L.A Kadiri (Rtd) argued that the conference became imperative in view of what he termed the misuse and abuse of power by certain individuals and bodies against the lawful interest of law abiding citizens. He explained that in 2007, GKS properties purchased two plots of land in the Gbagada Industrial Scheme Phase II from the Lagos State Government. The retired Navy Commander further noted, “We took quiet possession and peaceful possession of the parcels of land and fenced it, upon taking possession of our direct allocation documents. “Sometimes in May 2014, one Ayodele Eniola entered into our land claiming that the land belongs to him by virtue of a 1999 judgment of an Ikeja High Court ID/2076/92 Ayodele Eniola vs Lagos State Waste Disposal Board & 2Ors. “He entered into our land by breaking down some part of our fence and marking same, purporting to be executing the said judgment, resuscitated by the order of Honourable Justice Candide-Johnson. “We approached the Candide-Johnson court for redress complaining that we were not aware of the 1992 case or the 1999 judgment and that we are not privies to the defendants in the said suit nor were we sued by the claimant. “After hearing us, the honourable court ordered that GKS and all other such affected parties be restored back to their various holdings, pending the determination of the suit before the court. That order was made in November 2014 under the hand of the judge. “Later on in the case, the court ordered that parties submit their respective land surveys to the Surveyor-General of Lagos State office for charting and to have a composite plan that will clearly delineate and identify the position of the various holdings. “All parties complied with this order. When the report of the Surveyor-General came out, it clearly states that, ”˜The property said to belong to Mr Ayodele Eniola Estate verged green is approximately 8960.19m away from the Lagos State Government allocating above i.e. allocation (ii) (iii) (iv) (vi) (vii) and (ix) and also property said to belong to Mr Samuel Adebola Atunrase verged brown. “Ayodele Eniola’s land (which he claims to be 25 hectares) as shown by his own surveys is 9 kilometers away from where GKS property lands at the Gbagada Industrial Scheme is. “Shortly after the Surveyor-General turned in his report, Ayodele Eniola brought an appeal against the order of the Honourable court restoring us back to our land. Upon this, the Honourable High Court adjourned the matter to November 2016, for Ayodele Eniola to pursue his appeal. “However what we saw next is the fresh invasion of our land on the night of 15th April 2016 by a combination of policemen and all manners of thugs and miscreants, numbering more than 250 people. “These invaders on 17th April 2016, set ablaze a large area of the land being a dumping site, just about one hundred to two hundred meters away from Forte Oil and Merit Gas which are also our properties. “Upon information received about this unfortunate incident, we moved to the site only to find out that the whole place has become dangerous and militarized. “We could not enter our land as those who invaded our land were not only many in number but were aggressive and appear ready for war. When we tried to enter our land, from the back, we discovered that invaders, who were led and supervised by Tomori Williams who has for long been parading himself as the estate agent of Ayoola Eniola, had secured our gate from the inside by the means of a padlock. “From the evening of that Sunday, 17th April 2016, Ayodele Eniola’s crowd have not only settled on our land by force but have built a new wall cutting off huge portions of our land into what he claimed is his.

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