The Lagos State Government on Friday said it had approached the Supreme Court to seek clarifications on a 2012 judgement regarding land ownership in the Magodo area of the state.
The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotosho, in a statement, said the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration took the decision because judgment creditors failed to reach a consensus on the control of their association.
The statement was titled, ‘Update on settlement of Supreme Court judgement on Shangisha/Magodo’.
It read, “Following the intervention of Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, officials of the State Government and representatives of the Shangisha Landlords Association (the judgment creditors) held a series of meetings at which both parties explored the possibility of complying with the judgment of the Supreme Court.
“At the said meetings two issues arose:
“There was a serious division among the judgment creditors as to who controlled or had the right to represent the Association; and
“The demand by the judgment creditors that a single global Certificate of Occupancy should be issued in the name of the Association as opposed to the position of the State Government that each of the 549 members of the Association would be given allotment letters individually.