Ikoyi House is not Pa Fashina’s Property, Says Lagos
The Lagos State Government said it has rights over a property in Ikoyi that the family of Pa Kayode Fashina claims it owns.
The late Pa Fashina’s daughter, Mrs. Olubunkola Ajibike Osomo had accused the Lagos State Government of trying to take possession of her father’s house on the Lagoon waterfront known as Plot 439 Karimu Giwa Street, Ikoyi, contrary to a ruling of the Federal High Court in Lagos, presided by Hon. Justice D. D. Abutu that ruled that the government acted unconstitutionally and should leave the property alone.
However, the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSDPC) said the government appealed that judgment and won.
The corporation, in a statement, said “Representatives of Pa Fashina sought reliefs from the Federal High Court that the claim of the LSDPC was unconstitutional. Further to the above, the LSDPC sought a declaration at the Court of Appeal, Lagos in Suit No. CA/L/16/09 between LSDPC V Mr. Kayode Fashina & 2 Ors on whether the trial court was right when it held that Pa Fashina’s right against compulsory acquisition of the land was violated.
“On the 27th Day of March 2015, their Lordships, Chinwe Eugenia lyizoba, Tijani Abubakar and Abimbola Adegbenro of the Court of Appeal Lagos, in a lead judgement delivered by Tijani Abubakar (JCA) delivered as follows:
“It is certain this court found that the lower court acted in excess of its jurisdiction by hearing Applicants (Pa Fashina) application without jurisdiction. On this ground alone this appeal is bound to succeed, it therefore succeeds. The decision of the lower court delivered on the 22nd day of October 2008 is hereby set aside, and the Applicants application for enforcement of Fundamental Rights before the lower court is accordingly struck out.”
