The Kuje-Amuwo Chieftaincy Family has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police over the alleged deployment of the Lagos State Task Force on Land Matters to harass landowners and intervene with its disputed property in Festac Town Extension, Lagos.
In a petition dated September 28, 2026, the household accused the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) and different events of utilizing the duty power to disrupt actions on parts of the disputed land round sixth and seventh Avenue in Festac Town Extension.
The household additionally questioned the authority to use a directive reportedly issued in reference to the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway venture to the disputed property. The directive was attributed to Engineer O.E. Dare, whom the petition identifies as a Federal Controller with the Federal Ministry of Works.
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The petition adopted an earlier criticism to the Inspector-General of Police, which led to an investigation by the Police Monitoring Unit, Obalande, in March 2026. The household, nonetheless, mentioned the investigation had but to provide a report.
Tracing the dispute to the federal authorities’s acquisition of parts of its land for the 1977 World Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC ’77), the household maintained that the acquisition didn’t cowl the whole property.
It claimed {that a} survey performed by the Office of the Surveyor-General of the Federation established that solely 4.017 hectares of the land fell throughout the space acquired for the Federal Housing Authority (FHA).
The household additional said that the Federal Ministry of Land and Housing issued a letter in December 2010 in regards to the launch of the unused portion of the land, whereas it had obtained a courtroom order for bodily possession on 25 May 2010.
Despite these developments, the household alleged that actions on the disputed property continued in defiance of courtroom orders restraining demolition and obstruction of actions on the land.
The dispute continues to be pending earlier than Justice Raliat Adebiyi, with 15 October 2026 listed within the petition as the following adjourned date.
The household urged the police to research the duty power’s alleged involvement, set up the circumstances surrounding its intervention, and make the findings out there to the events.
It mentioned the result of the investigation would assist the courtroom decide possession and different points arising from the protracted land dispute.
The petition was signed by the household’s General Secretary/Coordinator, O.M. Osobase (JP), and copied to the Presidency, the Inspector-General of Police, the Minister of Land and Housing, the Chairman of the Police Service Commission, and the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command.
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