Lagos court adjourns hearing on Owode Onirin traders’ suit over shop demolition

The Lagos State High Court sitting successful Ikeja connected Friday adjourned the proceeding successful an exertion filed by traders astatine the Owode Onirin Old Motor Spare Parts Market, challenging the demolition of their shops, to March 17.

The traders are asking the tribunal to acceptable speech a ruling delivered connected June 20, 2024, which they allege was relied upon to warrant the penetration and partial demolition of the marketplace successful August 2025.

The applicants, who are members of the Agbajowo Market Association, run wrong the Owode Onirin Old Motor Spare Parts Market on Ikorodu Road, Mile 12, Lagos.

They told the tribunal that the marketplace was formally allocated to them by the Lagos State Government successful 1979.

Through their counsel, Femi Falana, the traders are besides seeking to beryllium joined arsenic parties successful the suit. They argued that they were ne'er served with immoderate tribunal processes successful the archetypal lawsuit instituted by Bolaji Olowu against the Shomolu and Kosofe Local Government Councils, which resulted successful a judgement delivered successful 1998.

According to the applicants, the tribunal was misled into granting the disputed ruling based connected an ex parte exertion filed by parties to the archetypal suit, without their cognition oregon participation.

However, the tribunal noted that the proceeding of the joinder exertion could not proceed due to the fact that counsel to the judgement creditor...