Inside Details Reveal Linking Tinubu To Magodo Land Grabbers Mess Is Mischief

Emerging details have revealed linking Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to the land ownership tussle rocking Magode Phase 2, Shangisha Lagos state is pure mischief.

Individuals labeled land grabbers stormed Magodo Phase 2, yesterday – Tuesday, December 21, 2021, to forcefully take possession of parts of the place.

The landlords association quickly locked the gate of the estate to prevent the entry of these individuals, along with a bulldozer that accompanied them – as well as police officers.

The checks by SocietyNow.Ng revealed that yesterday’s development has roots in the action of the military government when it was still in charge of the affairs of Lagos state.

“The military govt acquired over 500 plots of land from individuals who bought from landowners and allocated it to civil servants and other categories of people.

The landlords approached the court and got a judgment from the high court. The government appealed the judgment and lost both at the appeal court and Supreme Court” SocietyNow.Ng gathered.

Tunji Abdulhameed, the Legal Adviser to Magodo Resident Association validated these findings with the assertion that the landowners who tried to invade Magodo Phase 2 are relying on a 1993 judgment in a report monitored by SocietyNow.Ng on Punchng.Com.

“They had a judgment in 1993 and as far as I am concerned the judgment was not properly captured. The judgment said the government should allocate 549 plots to them with no specification to the area, property, location of the plots of land; in fact, there was nothing to ascertain the property they were talking about.” the Legal Adviser stated.

These disclosures make non-sense of claims that Tinubu who was Governor of Lagos state between May 199 to May 2007 -and his agents – forcefully took the land from the landowners.

“The action that is causing trouble in Magodo phase 2 took place before Tinubu became Governor and acquired the power of influence in Lagos state” SocietyNow.Ng gathered.

The Chairman, Board of Trustees, Magodo Residents Association, Professor Ayodele Ogunye’s insight into the problem at Magodo also put Tinubu out of the picture.

“I have been living here since 1992 but we have been having problems with land grabbers until this case became enlarged. It is true that the supreme court had given judgment in the favor of the Adeyiga Family; they are to be giving 549 plots but that judgment did not say 549 plots in Magodo.

“Hence, the Lagos State Government allocated plots of land to them along Badagry and Ibeju Lekki. So far, about 300 of them have agreed to take those plots and these people continue to harass us. I have been to Alagbon three times this year on this issue.

“Yesterday, in the morning, these people besieged us; they said they were bailiffs trying to enforce the supreme court judgment. They are not Lagos State Government bailiff, if they were, they will wear their jackets. They went to hire some area boys to come in as bailiff.

“I spoke with the senior officer that led them and he said he got instruction from the top to follow them. We told them to show us the judgment they are enforcing, and they showed our lawyer a press release. Press release is not a court judgment or court instruction that they should bombard us.

“They were marking houses including houses we have been living together since 1992. We gathered that the government was not informed yesterday, how could they come into a government estate without clearance from the governor, the governor said he is not aware about this siege.” Professor Ogunye explained in the report Monitored by SocietyNow.Ng on Punchng.com

Asiwaju Tinubu has been the subject of different shades of speculations and mischief since support groups pushing narratives about his 2023 Presidential ambition started springing up across the country.

The political leader has, however, continued to insist that helping his party ( All Progressives Congress) and President Muhammadu Buhari deliver on electoral promises remains his focus for now.