he Akinlowo Olaife family of Shasha Lagos has taken the state government to the Ikeja High Court for allegedly acquiring its ancestral land without compensation.Joined as co-defendants in the suit are the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice Lagos State, Ministry of Housing, Lagos State, Chief Executive Officers of the company handling the building project, Toobi Project Limited, Abiodun Rufai and Abiodun Jagunna.
They noted that despite the fact that the said memorandum of land sale and other documents purportedly used to purchase the land had been ascertained to be fake, the said Tijani continued to trespass on the land and even sold portions of the property to unsuspecting third parties. The Lagos State Government through the Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice and Ministry of Housing has however filed a joint defence to the suit claiming that the disputed land was acquired through a Global Acquisition dated July 1976.
Arc. Abiodun Rufai and Arc. Abiodun Jagunna in their joint defence dismissed the allegation that their company TOOBI Projects Limited was not registered with the CAC, describing it as gold digging on the part of the claimants.