Trial failed to commence in the matter last week due to the absence of the first alleged contemnor, Otunba Shamsideen Adedapo. The applicants, who are claimants/judgment creditors in suit IKD/M/26/2010, are seeking to commit to prison Nurudeen Odele-Agbaje, Oladapo Ogunyinka, Jamiu Babatunde Odele, Adebukola Osho, Fatai Olowu, Adedeji Osho and Ismail K. Thanny. Counsel to the applicants, Ade Sanusi, had urged the court to commit the defendants to prison for serial disobedience to a judgment of the court delivered by Justice Akintunde Savage on March 26, 2014. He said all the contemnors should be present for proceedings, having been served and responded to applicants’ application dated June 21. Sanusi, citing Sections 98 and 99 of Court Sheriff’s Rules of Service, argued that the first contemnor’s absence was contemptuous of the court and urged the court to commit him to prison or in the alternative, issue a bench warrant for his arrest. But counsel to the first, third, fifth and seventh respondents, Abayomi Omotubora, said the first respondent was not aware that the court was sitting. The defendants/judgment debtors are Oyedeko Ladejobe; Ganiu Ladejobe; Jamiu Awosan; Bashiru Awosan; Alhaji Salawu Ajejiomo Jabita; Fatai Jogbodo Jabita; Adetunde Ogunsanya Awosan and Module Enigbokan Awosan. The respondents allegedly disobeyed the orders of the enrolled consent judgment delivered by Justice Savage on March 26, 2014. The order includes that the landed property (of the Elepe Royal Family) be partitioned into four and shared to each of the four branches. The alleged contemnors prevented the order of the court from being carried out when they allegedly stationed fully armed thugs on the land, which action has prevented accredited representatives of the family from going to the land contrary to the enrolled order. The contemnors were alleged to have advertised themselves as head of Elepe royal family of Ikorodu, instead of Oyedeko Olorunwo Ladejobi, “by signing documents and advertising yourself as head of family contrary to paragraph 5 of enrolled order; selling of family land at Aga, Ikorodu, behind General Hospital contrary to paragraph 2 of the enrolled order of the court”. They were also alleged to have “stopped the surveyor from carrying out physical demarcation of the land as ordered by the court vide its order of September 15, 2015, even after possession has been handed over to the applicants by sheriff of the court”. ]]>
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