Lagos returns to Supreme Court over new disagreement with Shangisha/Magodo landlords

The Lagos State Government has returned to the Supreme Court after it failed to reach an agreement with members of the Shangisha Landlords Association on the execution of the judgement they got at the apex court.
In a statement signed by the Commissioner of Information, Gbegba Omotoso, the Lagos State Government is seeking clarifications on grey areas both parties have failed to agree on.
“Following the police seige on Magodo Estate early January, Lagos State Governor, Mr. 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,” Omotoso said.
“One of the issues that came up was a serious division among the judgment creditors as to who controlled or had the right to represent the Association; and the second one was 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.
“Given this sharp divide between the two factions of the judgment creditors on who has authority to represent the Association and the disagreement regarding whom the Certificate of Occupancy should be issued (collectively or individually), the State Government took and decision to approach the Supreme Court to seek further directives and clarifications on both issues.
“Lagos State Government has already served the Judgment Creditors with the application pending before the highest court in Nigeria.”
Omotoso said the state government is committed to complying with the judgment of the apex court once clarifications are gotten.