Onibeju Gives Conditions For Settlement Of Bogije Property Feud After Oluwo’s Public Outcry – Independent Newspaper Nigeria

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 LAGOS – Alhaji Nureni Oluwo, the head of the Oluwo family, Ibeju-Lekki, has called on Oba Wa­liu Olasunkanmi, the Onibeju of Ibeju-Lekki and other unknown parties to refrain from further encroachment on the 74 hectres of land at Bogije, 50 acres of land at Elesikan and 75 acres at Igbo­jiya, Ibeju-Lekki for which they obtained judgement in their favour on 25th June, 2025 at the High Court of Lagos State, after 18 years of legal battle.

Oluwo at a Media parley with family members cited judgement made from Suit No: LD/828/2007, by Justice Adebayo Oyebanji of the High Court of Lagos State in the Lagos Judicial Division Hold­en at Court No. 11, explained how they got judgement against Nuru­deen Pedro and six others on the contested 74 hectares of land lo­cated at Bogije and how Onibeju of Ibeju-Lekki in defiance to the judgement is conniving with the defendants along with some unknown people to encroach on the land and are forcefully selling portions to unsuspecting buyers.

Oluwo added that the Onibe­ju in further ploy to weaken the family from having grip on the disputed lands, went ahead to de­throne a family member, Chief Tajudeen Oluwo, who is the Baale of Bojia, installed about 15 years ago, only to replace him with a total stranger.

Alhaji Nureni further said the Onibeju through street ur­chins had been removing the judgement notification used by the family to notify unsuspecting buyers and dwellers of the prop­erty about the present status of the land for necessary compli­ance.

He stressed that Onibeju’s ac­tions have stalled the implemen­tation of the Court’s judgement, fuelling the resistance of illegal occupants of the land from mak­ing ratifications, encouraging il­legal sales of portions of the land, with several threats made to the lives of the Oluwo family.

Alhaji Nureni Oluwo there­fore called on Oba Waliu Olasun­kanmi, the Onibeju of Ibeju-Lek­ki to allow the court’s judgement to prevail and to reinstate their brother, Baale Tajudeen Oluwo, as the Baale of Igbojiya Com­munity, and that he should also remove his men from the land and stop the illegal sales land portions to unsuspecting buyers, while calling on CP Olohundare Jimoh, the Lagos State Commis­sioner of Police and Governor Babajide Sanwo- Olu of Lagos State to prevail on him.

In his response, Oba Waliu Razak Olasunkanmi, the Onibeju of Ibeju-Lekki declared the accu­sations made by Alhaji Nureni Oluwo were mere fabrications and conjectures, distancing him­self from such acts, pointing out that, it is Alhaji Oluwo and some few members of the family that wanted to edge him out of his possession as a bona fide member of the Oluwo family.

Oba Olasunkanmi said he is one of the five members of the Oluwo family (with his name on the originating writ of summon) who took Nurudeen Pedro and six others to court over the dis­puted Bogije land in 2007 and re­mained in the litigation process until the judgement was obtained in June 2025, only to find that his name has been surreptitiously removed from the claimants that got judgement in their favour.