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Court The housing agency stated that the judgment against a federal land duly acquired after payment of compensation and partially developed since 1977 as Festac Phase 1, is perverse and an abuse of court process. A federal High Court, Lagos judgment delivered by Justice Okon Effreti Abang on February 29, 2016 in favour of Kuje-Amuwo community may threaten re-development of the FESTAC Town Phase II scheme. The indigenes, relying on the judgment had embarked on harassment of allottees and demolition of the property of residents of FESTAC Phase II in a bid to enforce the judgment. The Alamuwo of Kuje Amuwo, Oba Isaac Owolabi and three others had instituted a suit against the FHA claiming that about 4.017 hectares being a portion of land in the Phase II of Festival Town belongs to the Amuwo community was not properly acquired.

…Strategizes For Peaceful Easter Celebration The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it would no longer tolerate the illegal activities of land grabbers otherwise known asOmo-Onile, just as it warned that anyone found using such to disturb public peace and illegally disposes people of their property would be prosecuted in accordance with relevant criminal laws. The State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, who said this shortly after the monthly Security Council Meeting, said the state government was seriously concerned about the menace of land grabbing, especially as activities of land grabbers have escalated in recent times, and that it would no longer be tolerated henceforth.