Community, govt ofifcial at loggerhead over land

[Shola Sholaz]

MEMBERS of the New-life Community Development Association, in the Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area, of Lagos state, are currently in confrontation with one of the top state government officials, Chief Jobi Ososanya, resident in the area.
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The disagreement is over the erection of a wall on a piece of land the people said used to be an access road at Olufemi Ogunshola Street in the area.
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It was gathered that, the wall had been erected three times and demolished by members of the community who felt the action was illegal.
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The offensive wall on the land in question The offensive wall on the land in question In the previous confrontation, it was also alleged that two out of those arrested and jailed by the special court attached to the Task-force on Environment, Alausa, Ikeja for bringing down the wall later died, apparently, as a result of torture suffered in the hands of security personnel To show their disapproval to the erection of the wall, members of the CDA, mostly youths, lat week marched to the site of the erected wall on Ogunsola Street, bringing it down completely.