Residents and property owners at Foweseje Community, Lakowe, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, who were displaced by a firm claiming ownership of the community land are seeking legal and judicial reprieve to the tune of N16 billion at Lagos High Court, Epe.
According to them, it has been a long drawn legal tussle between the community and the organization as far back as 2011 and the case was recently transferred to Epe High Court and scheduled for June 26, 2019, before the firm allegedly invaded the community with thugs to demolish houses. In their statement of claim, Chief Nojeem Fatai Arimi Ojomu , Adisa Fatai Ojomu and seven others who are claimants in the case alleged that the defendant is acting in concert with the defendants powerful connection and instruments of ARM Investment Company Limited and entered into Fowoseje village and bulldozed their buildings /properties and traditional enclaves and economic tree of the claimants without any court order or order or judgment.
Also, the Bale of Fowoseje Chief Nojeem Fatai Ojomu in his letter signed on January 17, 2012 to the Chairman Adhoc Committee, titled Fowoseje Land Matter and addressed to the House of Assembly Complex, Governor’s office, Alausa had appealed to the state to release their land to them so as to continue living on their ancestral land.
“To our surprise, we discovered that one Toll System Development Company Limited which is a subsidiary of A.R.M. Investment Limited, floated by some ‘powerful individuals’ invaded our land.
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