Drama ensued when the counsels to the litigants, Chief Dapo Agbede, and Mr Morakinyo Ogele staged a walk out after an unfavourable ruling by Justice Olaseinde, while members of the Olokunjuwon family had wanted to leave the court with their lawyers. However, the Chief Judge ordered the policemen attached to the court to arrest one of the family member, Olu Osere, for faulting the Chief Judge ruling, while the order was promptly carried out by the policemen, who grabbed the litigant by the trouser. Court proceedings was however disturbed temporarily for some minutes as members of the Olokunjuwon family shouted on the Judge, saying they were ready to go to jail because of their family land, which the judge wanted to give to another family, while Osere also resisted arrest. Some members of the Olokunjuwon’s family blocked the policemen who arrested Osere, vowing not to allow the policemen to take him away before the Chief Judge ordered the policemen to release him. As the policemen held the litigant by the trouser, other family members pounced on the policemen, saying they would not allow their brother to be taken away, which led to fisticuff, disrupting activities in the courtroom while the noise from family members also disrupted proceedings at other courts in the complex. The grouse of the family members and the lawyers who staged a walkout was over the ruling of Justice Kumuyi who refused to stay proceeding in the land dispute before him pending the determination of the appeal filed at the Court of Appeal sitting in Akure by the family counsel. The appellate court has fixed February 22 for the hearing of a motion seeking to compel Justice Kumuyi to make record of proceeding of a land dispute pending before him available to lawyers handling the case and for him to hand off the suit. Ogele and Agbede had filed an application before the court asking it to stay proceeding pending the determination of the appeal filed against the earlier decision of the court refusing to make record of proceeding available to new counsel briefed by the family. In their arguments, the two lawyers argued that since an appeal had been filed against the earlier decision of the court to furnish it with record of proceedings; the lower court should adjourn sine die in order to allow the appellate court to decide the appeal before it. Justice Kumuyi however refused to stay proceeding, which prompted Olu Osore to raise his hand in the court against the Judge’s decision, while the Judge asked him to sit down or get arrested and the man refused saying he did not want the court to adjudicate any longer in his family dispute, while the development led to the shouting match in the courtroom.]]>