The Save Lagos Group (SLG), a civil rights organisation seeks the intervention of the Lagos state government over a land dispute between the Awogboro and the Olakitan, two indigenous families.
The controversy surrounds the ownership of Olakitan Estate, a 27.324 hectares of land located in Agbado Oke-Odo LCDA, Alimosho Local Government Area of the State.
On Monday, the civil rights group in a statement signed by the convener, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman urged the state government to reprimand the Awogboro family, noting that their claim to the land is illegal.
The statement reads in part: “The controversy has been surrounding the land of the village with 27.324 Hectares of land (i.e. 273,240 Square metres) which the state government had been settled since 2015 by issuing a Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) to the rightful owner of the Land, the Olakitan family dated 24th Day of April,2015.
“Olakitan family had occupied the land from the time immemorial as contained in the Plan No. LAT1431/L/77 and disclosed that Olakitan’s family bounded by the Bamigbose family to the North, Ogunseye’s family to the East, Odo-Orojas to the West and Amosu Akin’s family to the South.”
The group also said the C of O issued by the state government to the Olakitan is subject to the approved layout plan granted by the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development.
“The government has laid the issue of owner of the Olakitan village to rest through the registration Number 87At Page 87 in Volume 2015J of the Lagos State of Nigeria Land Registry Office, Ikeja.”
The rights group also promised to write the state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on behalf of the people of the community by detailing the whole history surrounding the village and the reason why Awogboro family were working tirelessly to take over the estate.
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