Land owners, whose ancestral lands were acquired for the Lagos Lekki Free Trade Zone, yesterday, urged the Lagos State government to honour the 2007 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed between them and the government.
The families, comprising Eto, Idaso, Idotun and Falade, made the plea in Ikeja, Lagos through their lawyer, Dr Olatunji Abayomi.
This is just as they said they were not opposed to economic development coming to their communities or the state as a whole, but that things must be done properly.
Also, the Falade Family alleged that the state government was yet to properly acquire their family hand.
Dr Abayomi said: “This is not the first time we are drawing the attention of the Lagos State government to these issues of egregious injustice to our clients. In a letter dated 10 July 2017, this chamber wrote to the then Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, highlighting the injustice committed by the state government against her citizens regarding the acquisition of the Lagos Lekki Free Trade Zone Land. In that letter which was received in the office of the governor at about 1.15 pm on 12 July 2017, we raised several issues concerning the MoU Lagos State government signed with the communities/owners of the land, noting that the obligations of the Lagos State government under the MoU were unjustly abandoned after Lagos State had effectively taken over the land of these communities”.
