ENCROACHMENT: J A Ladeji & Sons NIG. Limited Files Court Case Against Illegal Occupiers Of New Abbatoir Site At Wazo Market

1. ENCROACHMENT: J A Ladeji & Sons NIG. Limited Files Court Case Against Illegal Occupiers Of New Abbatoir Site At Wazo Market

 

….pleads to court to order possession of the property from the illegal occupiers.

 

 

J A Ladeji & Sons Nigeria Limited has filed a court case against illegal occupiers of his property at a section of the Wazo Market , Isale General area in Ogbomoso, Oyo State.

At the High Court Registry in Ogbomoso, the court summon was taken out on behalf of Mr. Adedeji Ololade Adeyemo of No 9, Kasumu Ekimode Street, Victoria Island, Lagos by Professor I O Smith, SAN and Kayode Bankole Esq. of Smith & Bankole Legal Practitioners, whose office address is No 64, Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos the Legal Practitioners to the plaintiff on Thursday 2nd May, 2024.

 

The plaintiff pleaded on the order of the court to exercise her power and jurisdiction to order that possession of the property situated, lying and being along Ilorin Road, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, covering an approximated area of 1,875 hectares on Plan No. EBS 7691 which was embedded in Certificate of Statutory Right of Occupancy dated 5th February, 1981 and registered as No 34 at Page 34 in Volume 2357 at the Lands Registry, Ibadan, and which was issued in favour of J.A Ladeji & Sons Limited and the said property has not been let or had hindrances with anybody for the past 42 years until the recent encroachment into the said property by unknown persons.

 

According to the court summon, a copy which was made available to Premiumnewsnig.com, Mr Akin Ladeji, the only surviving director in the Plaintiff ‘s company, who conducts business on behalf of the plaintiff, operates between Canada and Nigeria but based in Lagos while in Nigeria.

 

Our source gathered that on the 23rd of December, 2023 Mr Akin Ladeji had visited Nigeria and had to come to Ogbomoso on a business trip and while in Ogbomoso, he visited the said property and met it fenced and locked with the same padlock the plaintiff had used and with no structure on the said property.

 

The property was still intact until they left Ogbomoso in the late December of 2023 to Lagos to conduct business activities on behalf of the Plaintiff while Mr Akin Ladeji travelled back to Canada in the middle of February, 2024.

 

Mr Kayode Bankole Esq. the legal counsel to the Plaintiff was in Ogbomoso on the 22nd April, 2024 to interact with a Client in respect of a case and while going to his house at Oke Again, he noticed some physical construction on the subject property with some people around it.

Some infrastructures have been put in place on the said subject property like pavilion where slaughtered animals are being burnt ,abattoirs, lairage, rows of stalls, access road and borehole.

Construction is still ongoing on the said property and all efforts to get the names of those on the property have been fruitless.

 

In his submission, the plaintiff told the court that the persons who had encroached into the subject property by breaking the gate and gaining access into the subject property are unknown.

 

Many workers have been recruited and building hurriedly to complete the structures on the said property.

 

The Summon further states that, the defendants do not have any title of possessory rights on the property and the plaintiff has not sold any portion of the property to anybody or company.

 

The defendants in question are not tenants and the plaintiff had no time leased out the property to anybody for use.

In keeping in line with the due process of law, the Plaintiff has decided to institute a legal action in order to gain possession of its property from these illegal occupiers(defendants) acting illegally on the property.

 

The plaintiff pleaded on the order of the court to exercise her power and jurisdiction to order that possession of the property situated, lying and being along Ilorin Road, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, covering an approximated area of 1,875 hectares on Plan No. EBS 7691 which was embedded in Certificate of Statutory Right of Occupancy dated 5th February, 1981 and registered as No 34 at Page 34 in Volume 2357 at the Lands Registry, Ibadan, and which was issued in favour of J.A Ladeji & Sons Limited.

 

The plaintiff  again emphasized that the said property has not been let or had hindrances with anybody for the past 42 years until the recent encroachment into the said property by these illegal occupiers.

 

The plaintiff in his final submission urges the court to grant its “application for possession pursuant to Order 63 of the Rules of this Honourable Court and the authorities cited in support thereof”.