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The Kwara State Government has demolished another property belonging to the Sarakis, a day after Justice Abiodun Adewara of Kwara State High Court in Ilorin, struck out a suit challenging the demolition of Ile Arugbo, a property used by the late political kingmaker of Kwara state, Olusola Saraki, to host his supporters.
The judge said the appellants, Bukola Saraki’s Asa Investment Limited, again failed to call any witness to support their claim that the land belonged to late Olusola Saraki.
On Wednesday, Asa Investment condemned government’s hasty action.
A statement by Akin Onigbinde (SAN) called it reckless, illegal and glaring impunity, insisting that the matter was still in court.
Abdulhakeem Garba
Updated February 2, 2021
File photo of the demolition of Saraki’s residence in Kwara. Inset: Bukola Saraki and Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq.
The Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, has struck out the suit challenging the demolition and acquisition of the disputed land of the late Dr Olusola Saraki (Ile Arugbo) by the Kwara State Government, for want of diligent prosecution.
The case was brought by claimants to the land, Asa Investment Limited against the state government.
The state government had on January 2020 taken over the said property, alleging illegal acquisition by the claimants.
Counsel to the claimants, Abdulazeez Ibrahim had earlier filed an application brought pursuant to Order 11 Rule 17 of the Kwara State High Court (2005) seeking to substitute the late second claimant, Alhaji Baba Eleku with one Abubakar Oluwatoyin.
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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