Iba Local Council Development Area, Lagos State, to persuade Mr.
Abiodun Lawal to stop the land case between his parents after his
mother died in 2012, has yielded no fruit.
Abiodun, 37, said his mother, Alhaja Fausat Lawal, gave him the
instruction to continue the land suit she filed against her husband,
71-year-old Alhaji Sule Lawal, after her death.
He said, “Our mother bought the land, one acre in size, for her
three children. But our father claimed to be the rightful owner and
went ahead to sell parts of the land to some people.
“Before she died, she had instructed us, the children, never to
terminate the suit but to follow it to the end.”
Family sources said Abiodun deliberately evaded series of meetings
where the matter could have been resolved amicably.
Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade, who presides over the matter at a
Lagos High Court in Igbosere, has subsequently made an order
substituting Abiodun with his late mother as the claimant. The
matter has also been fixed for October 15 for adoption of final
address.
The late Fausat, who died of Bosom cancer at the age of 56, had
filed the law suit against her husband on March 10, 2009 over the
disputed land.
The deceased had accused Sule of illegally selling parts of her piece
of land located in Ije-Ododo in Iba LCDA.
She joined as first defendant in the suit, Mr. John Egbotoloun, who
had already built a house on part of the land which he had bought
from her husband. Her husband was joined as the second
defendant.
Fausat, who had testified in the matter before she died, stated on
oath that she bought the land on March 16, 1976 from Mr. Teslim
Almaroof.
She stated that she later discovered that portions of the land had
been sold to some persons and structures erected on it in 2008.
According to her, while others left the land when they discovered
that the land was illegally sold to them, Egbotoloun stated.
Meanwhile, other defendants have justified their claim to the land
in their separate statements on oath.
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