Tension erupted in Ikeja, Lagos, after the Akinole-Oshiun family accused Hon. James Abiodun Faleke and officials of the Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority (OORBDA) of allegedly unleashing hoodlums on a disputed property, despite what the family described as \u201cfinal and binding\u201d court judgments affirming its ownership rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hon. James Abiodun Faleke is a third-term lawmaker representing Ikeja Federal Constituency in the 10th House of Representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The family alleged that armed thugs stormed the property located along Lateef Jakande Road, opposite the Coca-Cola factory in Agidingbi, in the early hours of Monday, May 25, 2026, demolishing a newly erected perimeter fence and forcefully removing the entrance gate in what witnesses described as a terrifying overnight operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incident has sparked fresh controversy over alleged land grabbing, political influence, and disregard for court judgments in Lagos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the family, the attackers operated under the cover of darkness and allegedly acted on the instructions of Faleke and officials of OORBDA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Residents in the area were reportedly thrown into panic as the operation unfolded in the dead of night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis was not just destruction of property; it was a direct assault on the rule of law,\u201d the family declared in a strongly worded statement issued after the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The disputed land, measuring about 8,097 square metres, forms part of a larger expanse of land in Agidingbi that has been the subject of legal battles spanning several decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The family insisted that courts, from the High Court to the Supreme Court, had consistently affirmed its ownership rights over the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the report, the Lagos State High Court entered judgment in favour of the family in Suit No. ID\/216\/77L between Sule Akinole & Anor v. A.T.O. Mogaji & Ors<\/em>, while subsequent appeals challenging the judgment were dismissed by both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The family further revealed that an attempt by the Lagos State Government to reopen the matter at the Court of Appeal in 2007 was also dismissed for lacking merit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following the legal victories, the family said it obtained a writ of possession and successfully recovered the land through a court-supervised execution in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It added that the Lagos State Government later initiated reconciliation efforts with land-owning families in Agidingbi and eventually allocated portions of land to the Akinole-Oshiun family in 2025, including the disputed parcel opposite the Coca-Cola factory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the family, the allocation came with official survey documents authenticated by the Surveyor-General of Lagos State, after which possession of the land was formally handed over to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The family said it subsequently commenced development on the property, including fencing and the installation of a gate, before the structures were allegedly demolished overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, in a dramatic twist, the family claimed that Faleke insisted the land belongs to OORBDA based on a Certificate of Occupancy allegedly issued to the agency by the Lagos State Government in 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The lawmaker was also alleged to have claimed a 20-year lease over the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The family, however, dismissed the claim as \u201clame, preposterous, and contemptuous,\u201d insisting that no Certificate of Occupancy or lease agreement could override subsisting court judgments and executed possession orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The incident has now triggered calls for an investigation and possible prosecution of all persons allegedly connected to the demolition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Observers say the development could ignite another major controversy over land ownership, political power, and the enforcement of judicial decisions in Lagos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As of the time of filing this report, neither Faleke nor officials of OORBDA had publicly responded to the allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tension erupted in Ikeja, Lagos, after the Akinole-Oshiun family accused Hon. James Abiodun Faleke and officials of the Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority (OORBDA) of allegedly unleashing hoodlums on a disputed property, despite what the family described as \u201cfinal and binding\u201d court judgments affirming its ownership rights. Hon. James Abiodun Faleke is a third-term lawmaker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97114,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97112\/revisions\/97114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}