Real estate firm, Winhomes Global Services, has warned the public against being deceived into buying its 25 hectares in Okun Ajah, Lagos.
The firm said it owns over 17 hectares bought from Etisalat Multipurpose Cooperative Society and `Adekambi and Agbationika families, both of Okun Ajah.
The firm said it has been in possession of the property for over two years, commenced clearing in January 2021, construction of perimeter fence in February 2021 and sand filling in March 2021.
Also, Lagos State High Court in Yaba has restrained Inspector General of Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police (FCIID) Abuja, and 10 others from further disturbing the owner of Winhomes Global Services.
Justice E.O. Ashade barred them from restricting her free movement within and out of Nigeria or for the purpose of compelling her to participate in resolution of the disputed land with Survey Plan: BOM/3538/017/2021 /LA dated 29/03/2021.
The judge made the order while delivering judgment in a fundamental rights enforcement suit: LD/14092MFHR/2022 filed by the plaintiff against IG and others.
The applicant, through her lawyer, Chief Bolanle Olugbani, sought a declaration she is entitled to personal liberty as she has not committed a criminal offence.
In a sister suit marked: EPD/113324/202, Justice Sharafa Olaitan ordered the defendants to maintain the status quo pending determination of the suit.
Besides, when the court visited the locus in quo (subject matter of suit) at Okun-Ajah on February 17 with two staff members, it was discovered Winhomes Global Services was in possession of the land.
Justice Ashade held: “It is my considered view and I find that it is not lawful for the first to ninth respondents to direct parties, including the applicant, to stop work on the land in dispute…without an order of court.
“It is not part of their (police) statutory duty imposed on them by law. They have clearly exceeded their statutory duty without hearing from the applicant.
“It is hereby declared that the statutory duties of the first to ninth respondents do not cover or extend to intervention in land disputes under any guise whatsoever or any such other civil transaction willingly entered into by citizens or any person and therefore are not entitled to arrest or detain the applicant on account of such disputes in Nigeria.
“It is hereby declared that the respondents are not entitled to disturb harass or interfere with the applicant’s right to personal liberty without an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.”
The court held that the IG lacked the powers to stop the applicant from entering the disputed land, declaring such directive null, void and unconstitutional.