The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has instituted a law suit against Lagos state Governor, Babatunde Fashola over the state government's plan to demolish the Lagos branch of his church, Word of Life Bible Church, situated on Plot 21E, Abdulrahman Okene Close, off Ligali Ayorinde Street Victoria Island Annex.
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 that after applying for a building plan approval from the state government and
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 papers that
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 said while
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 dated January 20 on 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.
11 comments:
Fashola and court case...he shld calm down ooo cos he will continue to fight court case long after he don commot for power
fashola touch not....you wan destroy God house
I just don't find it funny a a man of God being in the news all the time. He is a spiritual man for God's sake, and he should follow suit and not doing it worldly all the time. If Fashola decided to fight against God, he will surely see God's hands on his neck.
Imagine the law-breaking church. They stylishly excluded the part where they started building the business center (sorry, church) without approval. They're definitely going to lose this one. This is not Abuja.
But why should they build on the land when it's yet to be approved? That's a ten million dollar question.
The church is becoming more controversial by the day...we'll see how this plays out.
Islamic agenda of Fashola and Tinubu has failed
Fashola should think how does the land aquired originally? If the land is aquired through direct Government Fashola has no right to demolished the church but if it's illegal ly aquired the church should soffer for their negligence
Fashola should think how does the land aquired originally? If the land is aquired through direct Government Fashola has no right to demolished the church but if it's illegal ly aquired the church should soffer for their negligence
Yes oo... What Fashola and Tinubu are up to is the propagation of the Islamic agenda which has already failed since it has come to the open.
I think the Pastor has a case here
They should first demolish the ones that crumbled and killed several peopel.lolz
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