LANDOWNERS SEEKS PRESIDENT BUHARI’S INTERVENTIONS FROM ARMY ASSAULT AND DESTRUCTION OF THEIR HOUSE IN MESIOGO ESTATE
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Landlords of the Mesiogo Estate in Akobo area of Ibadan, Oyo State on Sunday pleads for the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari over the impending assault and destruction of their house planned by the army despite a court order that asked them to maintain the status quo.
The Landlords said in October last year, 2 Division of the Nigerian Army, Adekunle Fajuyi Cantonment marked their houses for demolition stating that the land on which the estate was built fell directly on the military barracks’ boundaries and that they must pay a fine or the houses would be demolished.
The spokesperson for the community, Amos Ishola said the private estate was built by a former Oyo State Governor, Late Kolapo Ishola and there are documents that revealed that the community did not intrude on the military land.
The residents claimed that the Ministry of Defence excluded their Estate from the other eight communities which trespassed on its land and are asked to regularise their stay.
It was learnt that the military, in its recent letter to the residents, claimed that some swindlers and land speculators had encroached on the undeveloped and unfenced areas of the entire land in the estate and were selling them to innocent members of the public.
Ishola disregarding the military stance noted that army claims on the land is not true and that the army was trying to bypass the ongoing court process. He added that the army’s letter entitled: ‘Final quit notice of possession of Nigerian Army land at Adekunle Fajuyi Cantonment, Ibadan’ dated November 12, 2018, requesting different sums of money from the landowners in the area was an effort to take laws into their own hands and use intimidating force on residents of the area.
He explained that as a result of the Nigerian Army’s intention to oppress and force landowners out of their houses, many residents had been sent to their early graves.
He therefore, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to check mate the activities of the military authority, make them to abide by the law, and give room to equity, justice and fair play which is the dividends of democracy.
The presiding judge, Justice Ladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court 11 had last year ruled that the status quo be maintained on the land pending the final determination of the case instituted by the Mesiogo Landlords Association.
The community had also written a letter dated November 19, 2018 to the state Ministry of Lands, Housing and Survey requesting for an urgent intervention and clearance of Mesiogo’s Deed of Conveyance dated March 3, 1965 and registered as page 60 in volume 826 at the Lands Registry, Ibadan.
Lieutenant S. O. Ilufoye, whose contact appeared on the letter for enquiries on the army’s move to evict the landlords, responded that he was not the signatory to the letter and that Mafuyai, who signed the letter, did so on behalf of the GOC.
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