Court restrains Lagos monarch from removing family head

JUSTICE Adeniyi Pokanu of the Lagos High Court, Ikorodu, Lagos, has granted an interim injunction restraining the Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Oba Kabir Adewale Shotebi, from removing Chief Kameel Adisa Dada as the Head of Regun Family and Regun of Ikorodu.

The judge held that the order subsists, pending the hearing and determination of an April 20, 2022 motion on notice.

He made the order in a suit filed by Chief Dada and Gbenga Oshin as first and second claimants, for themselves and on behalf of the Regun Family of Ikorodu.

Oba Shotebi and Alhaji Jamiu Alao Shittu are the defendants in the suit.

The claimants obtained the order via an April 20, 2022 motion ex- parte filed and moved by their counsel, Yemi Okewoye of Universal Solicitors and Advocates.

Justice Pokanu, in an April 26 ruling, which its Certified

True Copy ( CTC) was obtained yesterday by The Guardian, after hearing Yemi Okewoye, held: “I hold that the claimant/ applicant motion ex- parte for injunctive reliefs in the interim has merit and I hereby order that both parties i. e. claimants and defendants, are hereby mandated to maintain status quo as at today: to the effect that the first claimant is the Head of Regun Family and Regun of Ikorodu as at today April 27, 2022, pending the hearing and determination of the

motion on notice dated April 20, 2022.

“Parties shall refrain from taking any steps that will undermine the jurisdiction of this court.

“It is further ordered that the parties are directed to take other steps to ensure full compliance with the directives in the Practice Direction No. 2 of 2019 of this court. I so order!”

The judge adjourned till May 10, 2022 to hear the claimants/ applicants’ motion on notice.