The Commissioner of Police Lagos State Police Command, CP Muazu Zubairu, has been petitioned over the use of a detachment of Policemen attached to the RRS stationed at a disputed land situated at Coker village, Shasha in Idimu Local Government Area of the state.
The petition dated March 20, 2019 and signed by one Engineer Adetokunbo Coker, is alleged that his late father’s expanse of land measuring 18.61 hectares situated at Coker village had been encroached on by agents and allies of one Gbenga Olaiya and selling same to unsuspecting buyers in flagrant disobedience to a subsisting court order restraining him from doing such.
He contended that the matter in suit number ID/944/2007 was before Justice L. A. Okunnu of a Lagos High Court N0.39 (Land and chieftaincy matters division) adding that irrespective of the fact that the court had since issued an interlocutory injunction restraining the said Gbenga Olaiya who he described as a cousin from further encroaching on the land pending the determination of the suit; has continued to sell portions of the land with the assistance of the Police. Read more