Court Judgment Threatens Festac Town Phase II Re-development Scheme
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.