Justice Akinpelu gave the interim order in suit no KWS/112/2021 filed by Asa Investment and one other, against Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Kwara State House of Assembly, Attorney-General of Kwara State, Director-General of Kwara State Bureau of Lands and Inspector-General of Police.
Browsing: Ile Arugbo
In a statement signed by the lead counsel to Asa Investment, Dr. Akin Onigbinde, SAN, he noted that he was surprised that less than 24 hours after the court fixed March 27, 2021 for hearing of the counter-claim filed by the Kwara State Government, the government ordered bull-dozers to go to the property about 2.25am and 4.20am on February 3, 2021, to further demolish structure and materials on it.
The judgment was delivered on Thursday in the case instituted by Asa Investment Limited on the parcel of land, popularly known as Ile Arugbo
Justice Abiodun Adebara, while fixing the date, held that the parties’ of willingness for settlement was impressive
Justice Abiodun Adebara gave the advice while addressing counsel and parties in the case.
Since his election as Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has endeared himself to the people by his unassuming disposition, gender equality initiatives, developmental programmes and the prompt payment of the remuneration of workers.
The Kwara Progressives Group, an association in the vanguard of an egalitarian Kwara, has called on the Kwara State Government to investigate the numerous death of Kwara indigenes at Ile-Arugbo during the past administration.
Senator Makanjuola Ajadi, the Chairman of the committee, disclosed this in Ilorin while briefing newsmen on the controversy surrounding government’s reclamation of the Ile Arugbo land.
The State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, said the properties were owned by the state but converted to personal use by Saraki and others
In a statement on Friday, Saraki, who is a member of the All Progressives Congress like AbdulRazaq, condemned the violent manner in which the demolition was carried out, calling on the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to call to order the Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Kayode Egbetokun
The President of Agbaji Development Association in Ilorin, Alhaji Yusuf Olanrewaju, has described as “unfair”, the demolition of late second republic Senate Leader Olusola Saraki’s political pot in llorin.
The land was seized last week from the Saraki family by the Kwara State Government