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The Ojora Royal Family of Lagos has reaffirmed its ownership of a vast land in Abebe Village and Iganmu.
In a statement issued on Thursday, the family said the courts vested it with the ownership of the land.
The family said the Lagos High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court in their decisions in 1972, 2001 and 2005 confirmed its ownership of the land.
‘’Our family states unequivocally that we are not parading ourselves as owners of Abebe Village or other land in Iganmu, but we are actual owners of Abebe Village and the entire land known as Iganmu, as confirmed by the courts’’, said the statement signed by the Ojora of Ijoraland and Iganmu Kingdom, Oba Abdulfatai Aromire, and the family’s lawyer, Mr. Ejiro Egbekene.
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It said on January 23 last year, a Lagos High Court dismissed a suit contesting its ownership of the land, quoting the judge as saying: ‘’I agree that the Ojora Royal Family has been on the land for more than the 12 years stipulated in the limitation law (cap L67) of Lagos State 2003. It is, therefore, late in the day for the plaintiffs to lay claim of ownership to the land’’.
The family added that another suit filed against it by Taylor Woodrow was dismissed last March 10 by Justice S. A. Onigbanjo, who held as follows: ’’I am convinced from the foregoing that by seeking to re-litigate the issue of the Ojora family’s radical title over land in Iganmu and its environs as put to rest by the Supreme Court in suit number: SC/54/2005 by filing this suit, Taylor Woodrow Nig., Ltd., and others are clearly abusing the process of court. This has rendered my consideration of other grounds for raising the preliminary objection mere academic exercise since abusing the process of court automatically renders this suit liable to dismissal as prayed by the Ojora family’’.
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