Oritsejafor drags Fashola to court over plans to demolish his Lagos church
In the suit filed before Justice Deborah Oluwayemi of a Lagos High Court, Tafawa Balewa Square, Pastor Ayo and the Incorporated Trustees of his church asked the court for an order of interlocutory injunction, restraining the state government from demolishing, destroying, dispossessing or forcibly ejecting the church from the property.
According to court papers obtained by The Nation, Pastor Ayo alleged thatafter applying for a building plan approval from the stategovernmentand it was not forth coming within the regular period, he made due enquires personally by writing several letters and holding meetings with the former and present governors, Bola Tinubu and Fashola respectively but his efforts yielded no results.
He stated in the court papersthat in March 2013, he received a letter from the state government, directing him and his church board to submit some certain documents to facilitate the process of the approval of the building plan which him and his board complied with. He saidwhile him and his church board was still awaiting the building plan approval in order to continue with their church building, they suddenly discovered that the state government had pasted a certain contravention notice datedJanuary 20on its fence.
He prayed the court to halt any planned action by the state government to demolish or eject them from their property.
Joined as co-defendants in the suit are the Lagos state Attorney General, Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, Lagos state Building Control Agency, Lagos State Physical Planning permit Authority and Lagos State Task force on Environmental Sanitation.
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