The Sole Administrator of Agboyi/Ketu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Tunji Ilelaboye, has been accused by traders in the market of planning to snatch the place from them.
The traders and Balogun of the family alleged that the LCDA boss had concluded plans to lease the land to a modern market, adding that there is document that the land was sold to them.
Spokesmen of the family, Yakubu Ishola Balogun, disclosed that his father, late Chief Ishola Balogun, own the piece of land when he was alive.
He further explained that “his father had a friend called Alhaji Salami Lawon (late) who was involved in deals in his into trading business, like meals, plants in Lagos Island during 90s.”
“My father enlightened him on why he should build his market close to Ketu instead of Lagos Island because there were a lot of consumers of his products in Maryland,” he said.
But my father told him that he would need to pay some amount of money which the late Lawon agreed.
After the market got burnt on 2014, the Sole Administrator of LCDA, Ilelaboye, visited the land and told the family that he wanted to build a modern market without selling the land to anybody, Balogun stated.
According to him, the matter was taken to Lagos High court before the Justice G.A. Safari, who ordered all the parties to maintain the status quo existing in respect of the land.
Justice Safari also ordered that parties take a photograph of the land in dispute and submit copies of same to the court.
Balogun explained that the court order them not to work on the land, but Ilelaboye allegedly brought a contractor to the land and gave them order to start working.
Meanwhile, every attempt by our reporter to reach the council chairman as at the time of filing this report proved abortive.
When our reporter visited the council area, an officer, who refused to mention his name, insisted that with no prior appointment, no one would be allowed to see the LCDA boss.
