Court strikes out case challenging ownership of Ile Arugbo Court strikes out case challenging ownership of Ile Arugbo
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Ilorin High Court presided over by Justice Abiodun Adewara, has struck out the case challenging Kwara State government’s take over of a controversial piece of land, Ile Arugbo land.
Justice Adewara of the Ilorin High Court, on Tuesday, struck out the case filed by the Sarakis for “lack of diligent prosecution.”
The judge struck out the case after the appellants Saraki’s Asa Investment Ltd again failed to call any witnesses to support their claim that the choice land belonged to the firm said to be owned by the late Olusola Saraki.
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Kwara State Government on Tuesday got a legal green light to proceed with building on the controversial Ile Arugbo land in Ilorin, with the court striking out the Bukola Saraki’s suit challenging the government’s take over of the land.
Justice Abiodun Adewara of the Ilorin High Court struck out the case on Tuesday for “lack of diligent prosecution”.
The judge said the case was struck out after the appellants – Asa Investment Ltd – failed to call any witness to support their claim that the choice land belonged to the firm or owned by the late Dr. Olusola Saraki.
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It is exactly one year on January 2, 2021 that the Kwara State Government took official possession of a portion of land otherwise known as Ile Arugbo or Ile L’Oke, depending on which side of Kwara politics one may belong to. Until the takeover, the land housed some shelters where the late Senator Olusola Saraki, and later his children, gathered their political followers to share largesse of various kinds. That facility until recently was notorious for annual stampedes and mysterious deaths of hundreds of people, mostly the aged.
The days leading January 2, 2020, the very day the land was taken over by the government, were charged. Precisely on December 28, the government issued a statement announcing the reclamation of the land from a firm, Asa Investment Limited, which is purportedly owned by the late Saraki on the ground that the land belonged to the government, was meant for construction of a secretariat, but was dubiously gifted to the firm without a