The balifs from Ogun State High Court, Ijebu Ode accompanied by a detachment of police officers from the state Command, Eleweran, Abeokuta on Tuesday stormed Odoyanta via Irewon in Odogbolu Local Government to effect the court judgment given over a 9.2 hectares family land belonging the late traditional ruler of the town, Oba Solomon Erinle.
The lawful take over was in pursuant to the judgement of the state High Court delivered on April 29 last year wherein Justice O H Oyajinmi sacked the illegal occupiers on the land and affirmed Mrs Mojisola Oyedele, Olugbenga Erinle and other beneficiaries of the estate of the late Oba Erinle as the rightful owners.
Speaking with the journalists during the exercise, the lawyer representing the Erinle family, Barr Ganiyu Faniyi said "We are here to ensure that the court judgment is upheld.
"We got here in 2022, I mean to this vast land of 9.2 hectares and we found out that some trespassers are already on the land without the consent of my clients.
"We warned them to desist but they will not yield and because we don't want to take the law into our hands, we approached the court and got the judgment last year April.
"So, we are here today to take the possession of the property as directed by the court.
"What this means is that from today anybody who does anything again on the land without the consent or authority of my clients will be guilty of contempt of the law which comes with severe sanctions"
Faniyi said that the lesson from this incident is for members of the public to always use the service of professionals to conduct diligent search on the status of any property that they desire to buy.
He explained that such diligent search will help to reveal the genuine title holders to the land and as such the buyers will not be doing business with with wrong people.
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