How Malami Saved Magodo Landowners
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mallam Ababakar Malami played a huge role in the effort of the Magodo/Shangisha landowners to recover their land and get justice served.
This much has come to the fore in the account of events that have played out these past years by the Chairman of the Shangisha Landlord Association, Alhaji Adebayo Onayiga following the forcefull takeover of their lands some 38 years ago by the then militry government of Lagos state led by Gbolahan Mudashiru.
The journey towards re-claiming their land has been tortortorous with officials of the Lagos state government wittingly disobeying and refusing to honour court judgements but the efforts of men like the Attorney-General of the federation and the Minister of Jusice has made it easy for them to inch closer to effecting the court directive that their plots be handed over to them.
Narrating the Attorney-General’s effort in helping to ensure that they get justice, Chairman of Shangisha Landlord Association, Alhaji Adebayo Onayiga praised the effort of the AGF who he described as being alive to his responsibility while also thanking President Muhammadu Buhari for putting a round peg in a round hole.
He said, ”As we once said, we need people like Attorney General of the Federation of Nigeria Abubakar Malami who is indeed alive with his responsibility. We also thank the President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari for putting a round peg in a round hole in the person of Alhaji Abubakar Malami (SAN).
”Finally, an adage says the will of justice grinds slowly, and it is not easy to catch up with when the pendulum falls. Mr. Adesegun Ogunlewe and Mr. Gbenga Bariu Ashafa pustule and boast that the landlords will reap the fruits of their judgment in their graves. We can now see that Ogunlewe and Ashafa are not God. It is only their wishful thinking. God is more powerful than human beings,” he concluded in his narration.
