The Supreme Court today (Friday) struck out a suit filed by Federal
Government seeking an order wresting the control and management of its land in
Lagos from the
state government.
A five-man panel of the Supreme Court led by Justice Olabode
Rhodes-Vivour, unanimously struck out the Federal Government’s suit after
upholding the preliminary objection filed by the Lagos Government to challenge
the competence of the suit.
Justice Dattijo Muhammad, who read the apex court’s lead ruling, agreed
with the Lagos that;
The court lacked the power to exercise its “original jurisdiction” in the
suit because the Federal Government had “transferred its title in the land to
others”.
The dispute between the federal and Lagos State governments was about
“general control and management of federal land within Lagos State,
particularly the re-issuance of certificates of occupancy, granting consent or
exercising rights of ownership.”
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