Court remands Dada Aigbe in Correctional facility over contempt

 

IKEJA, Lagos – A Lagos High Court, sitting in Ikeja, has remanded l Chairman of Confidence Cargo, Freight Forwarder, Mr Dada Aigbe, in Kirikiri Correctional facility for disobeying court order and   interfering in a land matter over which he is not a party.

The land dispute is between HRM, Oba Shakirudeen Adeshina Kuti, the Complainants and Osolo of Isolo, HRM, Oba Agbabiaka Kabiru Orisedeko Kuti and the Baale of Mafoluku, Ajao Estate; Chief Hussam Raheem Shekoni Elemo, as defendants before Justice M.A Savage of an Ikeja High Court, Lands Division.

The fact of the case as contained in the petition is that the complainant’s ancestral family land along Airport Road, Ewu town, Mafoluku, Oshodi, Lagos was allegedly invaded by Oludada Aigbe and his thugs.

The case, investigated by FCID SWAT Annex, Lagos before it was transferred to FCID SWAT, Abuja through an endorsed petition dated October 27, 2023 for further investigation.

Upon receipt of the petition, a team of SWAT operatives led by Inspector Murtala Folorunsho departed for Lagos State on investigation on November 8, 2023.

Upon arrival, the petitioners were contacted and their statements recorded voluntarily adopting the same content of the petition.

The scene of crime was visited on November 9, 2024 at about 12noon and revisited on November 11, 2024 at about 2pm. Based on the directives of the DIG FCID, parties should interview him on November 14, 2023, parties interviewed the DIG. The suspect’s statement was recorded under caution.

During the course of investigation, both parties presented documents backing up their claims to the ownership of the disputed land for verification.

Subsequently, a letter was sent to Surveyor General Office, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos State as well as Appeal Court, Lagos Division, where the case is being determined in favour of the Ajamogun and Onikotun Families and against the Elemo Family since the year 2019.

The court then issued a bench warrant against Mr Dada Aigbe and he was committed to Kirikiri Prison for a period of one month until he purges himself of the Contempt of the Court with filed affidavit.

He was even not a party in the land matter, but it was gathered that he was trying to use his influence to curry favour for the other party.

The other party got judgement on the matter and he despite not being a party, was said to have illegally taken possession of the property despite subsisting court order.

The Judgment creditors family went to court through their counsel M.B.JIMOH-AKOGUN Esq for contempt and the High Court of Lagos State, presided over by Honourable Justice M.A.Savage committed the contemptnor to prison on Monday 11th day of March, 2014

He was also ordered to henceforth desist from disobeying the court or any court order and the warrant, dated Match 11, 2024, was signed by the court’s Chief Executive Officer, Mrs A. O Lasisi.