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Displaced Maroko Residents Petition Tinubu

This Day (Lagos)
NEWS
April 3, 2004
Posted to the web April 5, 2004

By Abimbola Akosile
Lagos
Displaced residents of Maroko peninsular, a suburb of Lagos, have petitioned
Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos State over an alleged attempt by a Lagos Oba to
hijack and deprive them of their newly allocated plots of land under the state
government's approved resettlement plan.
The petitioners are protesting alleged plane of Oba Elegushi who once had the
title of the land to supplant the issuance of the C of O to the resettled
residents on Monday April 5.
In a letter written by Mr. Kayode Bankole counsel to the residents addressed to
the Governor, he decried an alleged move by Oba Elegushi to snatch the land
being used to resettle them, collect their Certificate of Occupancy (C of O),
and also impose a new Baale over them in the new location, despite the fact
that they were no longer under his domain.
They claimed they had struggled with successive governments under their
association for the re-settlement since they were displaced over twenty years
ago by then-Governor Raji Rasaki.
"We wish to inform your Excellency on a plan by Oba Elegushi to snatch the land
being used to resettle our client, and its certificate of occupancy by suddenly
imposing a Baale over us. The land being used to resettle our clients is
located within the area originally owned by the Ojomu, therefore it becomes
impossible for the Elegushi to now select or impose any Baale over the portion
of land", Bankole wrote.
The residents also informed the Governor of one Primate Sunday Olayinka (the
association leader) as the one chosen by them to collect the certificate of
occupancy for them at the formal presentation.

   

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