A Lagos High Court has set aside the installation of Idris Adeowo as the Baale of Okegbegun in Ikorodu, Lagos.
Justice Adeniyi Pokanu, who delivered the judgment, held that the installation was wrongful, having been performed with out lawful authority.
Pokamu additionally ordered Adeowo to be restrained from additional parading himself as Baale of Orija-Okegbegun.
The choose held that the clandestine household assembly purportedly held on December 27, 2020 was wrongful, null, void and of no impact in any respect.
He additional declared that the chief council of the Lambo department, Oju Egun Lasunwon, Lasunwon Royal Family, Ikorodu Lagos State, beneath the management of Chief Mathew Shodipo, is subsisting and indissoluble by the extremely vires assembly purportedly held on identical date.
The claimants within the swimsuit marked 8043GCMW/2021 are; Mathew Shodipo, Olootu of Lambo department, Lasunwon Royal household; Alhaji Gafar Shokelu, treasurer; Chief Nurudeen Fakomaya, (Baale), Prince Albert Aina, Secretary; Alhaji Solihu Agiri and Prince Jamiu Gbadebo.
The respondents are; Akeem Shodipo, Jimo Mabogaje, Nurudeen Adenuga, Idris Adeowo and Oba Kabir Shotobi (Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Lagos State).
The choose, subsequently, declared that Chief Nurudeen Fakomaya was the genuine Baale of Okegbegun, Ikorodu, Lagos State, having been nominated and put in by due course of.
He gave an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, their counsel, privies or any individual performing by way of or of their stead from additional performing unlawfully interrupting the claimants of their day-to-day administrative of the Lambo department, Oju Egun Lasunwon, Lasunwon Royal Family, Lagos State.
NAN reviews that counsel to the claimant, Mr Adefolaju Oloko, prayed the court to award N5 million towards the defendants as damages.
Meanwhile, counsel to the defendant, Mr Adebisi Ogundipe, thanked the court for its incisive judgment and prayed the court to order that every social gathering be ordered to bear their respective value.
Justice Pokanu consequently held, ”I’ve listened to the submissions of counsel on value; each the defendants and claimants are of the identical household, with a view to encourage their peaceable co-existence, I order all events to bear their respective value.” (NAN)
