12/07/2025
*C of O doesn't stop us from retrieving Land in Lagos, Yoruba Conservatives tells Igbos.*
*The Yoruba Conservative has clear the air on ownership of land in Lagos stating that no amount of proof of ownership can stop them from retrieving any land on Lagos soil.*
Some people believe because they have lived in Lagos for years and own a property or land means they have same right as Yoruba. But thats not true. You are in Lagos to do business, and because Yoruba welcome and accommodated you by selling you a land doesn't mean those land are gone. Absolutely not! You don't own the land, you are only permitted to use it as long as you don't disobey or disrespect your host Yoruba. Which means you own that land because you and the seller are in good terms.
Even if you paid millions to acquire it, that doesn't stop us from getting the land back. There are many reports flying everywhere that Igbos said they own Lagos and they already bought all the land. This make me laugh because according to us, we don't agree and believe in what they believe.
The certificate of occupancy is between you and the government but not between us. We never for once believe in that. We don't do things on court order. We do things on our own. We can demolish any building without court order, we can give a quit notice to landlord without a court order if we think such landlord is chewing more than he can bite or disrespecting the native people of Lagos.
If certificate of occupancy is the reason why anyone will say they own a place, then I think they already missed the point dealing with people like us. Yoruba Conservative is a native movement that is guided by ancestral history, not by any court.
You can give it any definition or call us any names, but that's the fact. Therefore if anyone thinks having a C of O can make him disrespect us by talking anyhow, then the person has missed it. We will definitely come for such person sooner or later.
If you lived in the UK or US, even if you are a citizen, you still have to respect the native English or Native Americans. The moment you start misbehaving, you may be in trouble.
Yoruba in UK, US and even within Nigeria has never called another tribe land a No Man's Land even if they have lived their for hundred years. You will never hear our people disrespecting their host. So why should we allow that from foreigner.
In igboland, they don't even sell land to non igbos, they only care about themselves. So if you come to Lagos and start misbehaving, then you must face the consequences of your action; and the time has come already.
*Adebanjo Oshodi YCS, Lagos* .
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I don't know why Joe Igbokwe is crying below is his response and he wrote:
Ayoade Ojeniyi, Ayoade Ojeniyi, Ayoade Ojeniyi how many times did I call you? Do not start what you cannot finish. What is the meaning of this? What are you implying? Of what meat are you fed? Have you forgotten that Lagos was the capital of Nigeria for 86 years until IBB moved the Capital to Abuja in I990 after a coup that shocked him to the marrows? Will the non indigenes carry their houses to their village when they die? One man from Orlu in Imo State owned nearly 70 houses and when he died he was not buried with those 70 houses in Orlu. Ayoade, Ayoade please why is Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti not developed like Lagos? Did you develop Lagos?
Everybody East , West, North or South is investing in Abuja today and tomorrow Abuja indigenes that were fully compensated and relocated by the Federal government team led by the late Justice Akinola Aguda will come back to begin to claim Abuja as their own abi? No wonder a plot of land Former Governor Fashola approved for me in 2013 at Abijo GRA with C/0 was stolen and I am yet to recover it till date. All efforts to retrieve that one plot of land have failed. But let me say it here: nobody born of a woman will steal that land from me. I have lived in Lagos for close to 40 years and I have served this state with every energy at my disposal and I cannot be treated like a foreigner in my own Country.
Monumental Federal assets were left in Lagos when the Federal government was moved to Abuja . I am aware of how these monumental assets were sold and the ones ceded to LASG. I came across some people who were selling those properties and I do not know where all the money realized went to. These were the assets that belonged to all Nigerians. Who sold those assets and where did all the money go to? Let fear God small now
Ayoade, Ayoade, Ayoade I know about Nigerians who live in America and Europe, Asia etc who own houses there and when they die will they come home with those houses? Will the houses be uprooted and transported to Nigeria? Let us put our thinking caps now. Make Shame Catch us small now. May we not start what can cannot finish.❗
