The Alagbaka Landlord Association, Alagbaka GRA extension, Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Sunday, called on the two families of Olokunjuwon and Umelu to obey the court order over the community land.
It was gathered that the Olokunjuwon and Umelu families won the ownership of the land in the state High Court in Akure but the judgment debtor -Elekumo Family, appealed the verdict at the Supreme Court and obtained a stay of execution.
According to the landlords, while the matter was still pending at the Supreme Court, the Olokunjuwon family allegedly commenced enforcement of the court judgment as it pasted notices on their walls telling them to regularise the ownership of the land on which they built their houses, which entails buying the land again from them.
The chairman of the landlord association, Mr Fred Ojo, in a statement on Sunday, said the Olokunjuwon and Umelu families had pasted notices of demand on the houses of the landlords, including the private house of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, demanding that they should come to the families for the regularisation of their land ownership.
The association chairman pointed out that the posters on their various gates and houses, including that of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, were signed by one O.V. Omotayo.
Ojo described the action of the families as “harassment” and urged them to wait till the outcome of the case at the apex court – SC/CV/1151/2022 CA/AK/105A/2017 suit no. AK/173/2012.
He also warned against acts tantamount to contempt of court.
Ojo said, “The stay of execution granted by the state High Court is in respect of the appeal at Supreme Court in SC/CV/1151/2022, which is still pending in the Supreme Court.
“The stay of execution granted to the owners and residents by Justice Adebusoye is still subsisting until the determination of the Supreme Court case adjourned to March 2027.
“It is a global judicial practice that once a matter is before a Supreme Court, no execution from a lower court can be carried out until the matter is disposed of.”
The landlords association advised its members in the GRA not to panic, that the matter had not been concluded in court.
It was gathered that the Supreme Court has fixed March 27, 2027, for the hearing of the application filed by Olusola Aladesuyi, Tunde Oyinloye, and Olusegun Adu-Peters for themselves and on behalf of land owners and landlords of Alagbaka GRA extension seeking to join the suit on the disputed Olokunjuwon, Umelu and Elekumo family land.
