 Under Lagos State Government, Baba Jidesong Wulu has wedded into the lingering land dispute in Magoda Phase 2 estate. The governor visited the estate on Tuesday and invited all parties involved for a meeting in his office on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Magoda residents had staged a protest over the presence of policemen in the estate. Court bailiffs had also sealed some property in the estate in the enforcement of a Supreme Court judgment. It's very difficult to want to start a new year like this and it's because of the importance that we see to all of the misinformation and lack of proper information that I have to take of this assignment myself. When the first attempt as in coming to the residence, coming to the estate happened about a week and a half, two weeks ago before the new year, I did intervene and if you remember very well, the action was immediately halted and there were no incidents again and throughout the festive period we had started communication. Joining us now is Mr. Gminga Omotosho, Commissioner for Information Lagos State. Hello Mr. Omotosho. Good evening. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Well, earlier today the governor went to Magoda Fish too. Can you tell us about the ongoing crisis in that estate? Well, there is a family that is that I want a judgment about that in which the Supreme Court said it should be giving 500 plots of land in by the Lagos State government, but the case has been on for so long. I think it's about 20 years now and then when we survived this all, the governor came in and he saw the file, immediately set up a committee to look at the matter and the committee has been meeting and unfortunately, perhaps because it's a judgment creditors, the know that the committee was meeting, they now decided to do what they are doing in Magoda now. I understand they have the backing of the attorney general of the federation and the police chief and the governor, as you heard in that report, came in and asked all the parties to stay in action and that he was going to begin a dialogue over the matter and he went there today when things started to go wrong and then he was able to come and free the nubs, he was able to talk to the attorney general of the federation, he was able to talk to the police chief and even all the policemen who were there asking them to stand down and that is the situation now. Tomorrow a meeting is going to be convened in the Government Secretaryate of all the parties involved in this crisis and attempt to find a way out of the crisis and I hope that after that meeting everybody will see the sincerity of the committee, certainly the matter because like the governor said, all the parties, the police, the claimants, government claimants, creditors and then the returners in Magudu and the landlords in Magudu, they all belong to us, they are all negotiations and the governor is the father of all and he is ready to settle the matter and it will be settled. They are all negotiations and they all belong to Legos but this situation seems very obnoxious. First of all you have the attorney general of the federation, he's sending a different police commissioner there which sparked some sort of controversy and then you have a very dissituation which is very dire, you have the Shangisha landlords association on one side who are saying the lands you are forcefully taken from them and that they are accusing the Legos state government of refusing to be caught in the court orders and then on the other hand you have the residents living there who have proper title, this is a very serious, anything that has to do with land is usually very difficult to tackle. How do you see this being resolved? There is a meeting called for tomorrow. Yeah, if you look at it from the surface, if you look at this superficially, it's a very difficult problem, it's not a problem that cannot be resolved. The governor believes that there is nothing that dialogue cannot resolve and that is why he's calling all the parties to come to the round table. Even after winning a judgment, there's no way that you want to enforce the judgment by using force and like you have said, the landlords of Magudu, they have a proper title should they are properties in Magudu. So there is no way the government you can just say that they should leave the place for the family that is saying that they have won the case and the family to, the government cannot this is just a way away and then be holding only the paper in their hands as their judgment. That's why the government is calling all of the sides together and the government is very clear that they should be giving plus of land and the government will look at that and see how everybody can be pleased so that no side will see the government has taken sides and no side will see that the government is not doing what the law is saying. So the government is going to look at the judgment and then see how this people can be settled. But now the government is asking for peace in Magudu and it's happy that peace has been restored in Magudu. That is the most important thing now. The other part of it is going to be settled on the table. Settled on the table. So I guess that we'll find out tomorrow after the meeting. Sure. Sure. What about those whose houses have been marked too and who have been threatened with demolition? What is their fate at the moment? The state government does not believe that that should happen and the state government has said that that situation should be reversed. Everybody should go back to the status quo. Since you are calling for dialogue, you cannot be calling for dialogue and at the same time encouraging people to go around marking people's houses. That is not the way to go. As I have said, the government believes that there is no matter that cannot be settled through dialogue. And that is the system that we are going to employ in this case. And he has said that this should come to allow us tomorrow. So the marking of houses should stop and people trying to demolish houses. I was there, the governor was there. I didn't see any Buddhists are trying to do that. And we do not commit any legality by trying to correct what to perceive as an illegality. Like our people say two wrongs don't make a right. So I do not see why anybody should go in there and begin to demolish houses or marking houses. Once the governor steps into the matter and he has pledged publicly that it's going to resolve the matter, I do not see why anybody should continue to make trouble. So for now there is peace in Magudu. The people's houses have been marked. They should just stay calm. And people who believe that they are being threatened, that their homes could be demolished, they should stay calm. No demolish house is going to be demolished in Magudu. Well, thank you so much, Mr. Gbinga Omotisha, Commissioner for Information Legal State. 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