A group of communities-Abomiti Zone, Yeguda, and Eyin Osa in the Epe Local Government Area of Lagos State have begged Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to help stop the ongoing unlawful sale of their ancestral land.
At a press briefing held recently in Epe, the Baales(village heads) of the communities explained that their ancestral land and homes were taken from them in 2006 to pave way for the development of the Lekki Free Trade Zone by the administration of former Governor Bola Tinubu.
They said that alongside other villages, they were resettled and merged into three communities.
They claimed that the people in charge of their resettlement have since been selling their land unlawfully and keeping the proceeds of the sale for themselves.
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It was learnt that in 2006, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who was at the time the Governor of Lagos State conceived and nurtured the biggest ever investment hub in Nigeria and Africa, the Lekki Free trade zones, a hub uniquely designed to handle, reconfigure and ship out goods for the economic growth of Lagos State and Nigeria. About 300 hundred communities were affected and these communities were later merged into three zones namely Abomiti, Yeguda, and Eyin -Osa.
One of the community leaders, Chief Obafemi Onayemi, who is also the Baale of Onigbagbo community in the Abomiti Zone, said that a
deal was brokered between the state government and the communities by the Lekki Worldwide Investments Limited.