The House of Representatives has mandated its Committees on Justice, Public Petition, and Police to investigate the alleged involvement of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) in the invasion of Magodo GRA Phase 2, Lagos State, by the police on December 5, 2020.
They described the incident as an “attempt to destabilize the peace of Lagos State” and “scuttle the ongoing settlement process and enforce an illegality”.
The speakers recommended suitable sanctions against any officer found culpable in the “illegal enforcement and breakdown of law and order”.
This development followed the adoption of a motion of urgent importance to probe the invasion of Magodo GRA Phase 2 by the police under the directive of the IGP and the AGF, moved by Ademorin Kuye and Rotimi Agunsoye.
The House said residents of Magodo GRA Phase 2 Shangisha in Lagos woke up on December 5, 2020 “to the sight of hundreds of arm-wielding thugs, stern-looking and fully armed policemen, and members of the Shangisha Landlords Association, purportedly to execute a judgment”.
The Green Chamber said it was also aware that the judgment that was “supposedly being enforced was delivered in 2012 by the Supreme Court in Military Governors of Lagos State & Ors. Vs Adebayo Adeyiga & Ors. in Appeal number SC/112/2002 wherein the apex court affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeal and the High Court, delivered on December 31, 1993, in suit number ID/795/88”.
