Reprieve came the way of traders at the popular Ladipo Market on Friday when a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja restrained officials of the Mushin local government area of Lagos State from going ahead with the planned demolition of the market.

The court presided over by Justice Iyabo Akinkugbe ordered the local government to maintain the status quo pending the hearing and determination of a suit filed by some traders in the market.

No fewer than 10 traders including Nnamdi Chukwuka and Franco Offia had approached the court seeking an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the local government, either by itself, agents, officials, privies, servants or persons, from unlawfully carrying out any demolitions or ejection of the applicants from their respective business premises at the market pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit filed before the court.

The traders are also asking for the sum of N5 million damages as compensation for the loss they suffered when part of the market was demolished in June 2015.

The case was however stalled due to a prayer by counsel to the defendant (Mushin local government), Mrs A.O. Akin-Ajayi, seeking more time to respond to the suit because she was served with a copy of the processes only recently (July 27).

Akin-Ajayi told the court that she was surprised that the traders decided to file the action after a group, Igbo Conscience Group, waded into the matter.

http://newsday.com.ng/court-stops-planned-demolition-of-ladipo-market/

Very good

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These Yoruba bigots

Carry on.
Every igbo speaking group must leave Lagos, Lagos is for yorubas and Yoruba alone.

You hate Igbos but collect duplicitous tax from them to develop Lagos or you better speak out for a new country for urselves not deceiving ur clouded brain shouting one Nigeria. Rubbish, most people will tell u is because of envy and jealousy which is new disease without any known cure yet. Obama said it if any nation is suppressing any tribe indirectly they put the entire country down get no peace and make no progress. I have to agree with him because all this while some get sleepless night planning just to make sure a tribe is stopped. And i ask is there peace in Nigeria after all this hate crime? No!

lygn19:
Carry on.
Every igbo speaking group must leave Lagos, Lagos is for yorubas and Yoruba alone.

[size=14pt]Apama !
Para nu m apara[/size]

- in the voice of Oriental Brothers

quid:
These Yoruba bigots

oponu ode

dayo23:

oponu ode

So you like my parole . . .

lygn19:
Carry on.
Every igbo speaking group must leave Lagos, Lagos is for yorubas and Yoruba alone.

Them want Biafra make them go now abi, dem go suffer ehh , those yeboos in lagos and other part making money just day laff them for east. So u wan tell Don Jazzy to relocate back to Aba? Senseless village people

quid:

So you like my parole . . .

I dey inline bro, we both defending our region

dayo23:
I dey inline bro, we both defending our region

Ok. No wahala.

dayo23:

Them want Biafra make them go now abi, dem go suffer ehh , those yeboos in lagos and other part making money just day laff them for east. So u wan tell Don Jazzy to relocate back to Aba? Senseless village people

These ppl won't leave unless until try sth drastic, u guys shud start acting like d Northerners, start bombing igbo dominated areas, make sure u sack all of dem from ur civil service, u can attack dem openly in d streets like south Africa.
That wud be a very nice move words and empty threats can't do anything.

For selfish follows it a bad new but is a lesson to plunders.