A prince and community leader in Isheri Olofin in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, Idris Balogun, has urged the government to fast-track judgments in the land dispute cases involving the community and its Ikosi neighbours.
The businessman relived his experience as a community leader, especially on the controversy between Isheri indigenes and their Ikosi neighbours He expressed worry about the current frosty relationship between the two neighbouring indigenes.
He said: “Ikosi people came to our forefathers and asked for a piece of land to lease for farming. Our forefathers gave them a portion of land to farm. They were paying their rents until their forefathers died. Then, the off-springs stopped paying us rents. Our great-grandfathers took them to court and got judgment against them, but they kept on appealing and encroaching on other parts of our land.
“There are evidences that the land belongs to us. We have been paying taxes to the Federal Government on many occasions. We have got four different judgments against them. But we, as law-abiding landlords of the community, believe in the law of the land. We will await the outcome of the Appeal Court before we take the next step.”
Balogun urged the Judiciary to expedite actions on the cases in courts to make the people .
He said: “You can imagine that some of the people we started this vanguard with are dead. I pray that God should spare our lives to see the matters to their ends.