The case by the Folawewo Family against Young Agro Services Company and Shodesam Preperties Ltd over alleged land encroachment will continue on Tuesday, June 23.
The case was adjourned by a High Court sitting in Kobape, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, till the date on May 12, 2026 to allow the defendants respond to a counter-affidavit.
Counsel to the Folawewo Family had filed a motion accompanied by a counter-affidavit which the court considered and asked the defendants of the two companies if they had received the document, and they answered in the affirmative.
However, counsel to the first and second defendants said that they would need time to react to the counter affidavit, and prayed the court to give them another date for adjournment.
The court granted them June 23, 2026.
During the session, counsel to Folawewo Family said if the first and second counsels came to the court on the adjourned date and failed to react to the counter affidavit, he would bring an action for the matter to be set down for hearing.
Recall that counsel to the Folawewo Family of Baale Folawewo Compound, Siun Obafemi-Owode local council had filed a suit dated October 3, 2025 against Young Agro Services Company and Shodesam Properties Investment Ltd. over alleged encroachment of more than 47 acres of land.
Joined in the suit as the third and fourth defendants respectively are the Director General, Bureau of Land and Survey, Ogun State, and the Attorney General of Ogun State.
The over 47 acres of land in contention is situated at Abomide Village, via Obadeyi Road, Opposite ImoEmulu/Day Waterman College, and stretching to the border of the Abeokuta/Sagamu Expressway in Obafemi-Owode local council.
In the suit filed by its lawyer at the High Court of Ogun State in Abeokuta, the Folawewo Family declared itself as the owner of the land allegedly trespassed by the Young Agro Services Company.
It pointed out that among other things, the alleged trespassers bulldozed and cleared the land with all the economic crops planted.
It claimed that the trespassers also destroyed ancestral huts and shrines which had been in existence for many centuries.
It therefore sought the order of the court to set aside the purported acquisition of its land for failing to accord with the procedure for compulsory acquisition under the Land Use Act.
Also sought by the family are:
“Order restraining 3rd and 4th Defendant from registering any interest over Claimants 47.246 Acres of land or 19.121 Hectares described under paragraph (a) above against the interest of the Claimants.
“A Declaration that the processing of C of O being embarked upon by the 2nd Defendant as gleaned from record at Bureau of Land, Abeokuta, is unlawful, null and void without complying with the requirements of the Land use Act which requires negotiation and payment of adequate compensation to the Claimants.
“General Damages in the sum of N2,000,000,000.00k (Two billion Naira) only against the 1st Defendant and 2nd Defendants for the act of trespass committed on Claimants land including the unlawful acts of bulldozing and clearing the land with all the economic crops planted; the destruction of their ancestral huts and shrines dating back centuries as well as the removal of surveyor beacons used in the partition of the 47.246 Acres or 19.121 Hectares of land.
“An order of Perpetual Injunction Restraining the Defendants by Themsleves, Privies, Assigns, officers, Servants and or Agents from taking any further action that will disturb the interest of Claimants over the 47.246 Acres or 19.121 hectares of land.
“N3m cost of action.”
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