Maroko demolition: Court fixes Dec. 9 for trial

Justice Adeniyi Onig­banjo of the Lagos State High Court sit­ting in Ikeja, will on December 9 commence tri­al in the suit filed by some indigenes against the state government over alleged refusal to resettle them after their houses were demolished at Maroko in 1990.

The aggrieved indigenes who dragged the state gov­ernment and its Attorney- General, Ade Ipaye before the court are the commu­nity leaders of Apapa-Eleko, Imoru, Igbo, and Tukuru vil­lages.
The claimants: Chief Siki­ru Akanni, Aruna Amodu, Rasheed Smith, Chief Sha­musideen Agbaje and Chief Olumide Mafo filed the suit for themselves and on behalf of the members of their dif­ferent communities.
According to their state­ment of claim, the claim­ants averred that “they are the indigenes of the villages mentioned, in Eti-Osa Lo­cal Government, customary owners of the entire parcel of land being, lying and situated at Ikoyi South West.”