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MINISTER OF LAGOS AFFAIRS MINES AND POWER & ANOR V. CHIEF AKIN-OLUGBADE & ORS.

(1974) JELR 42461 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  SC.83/1970(-R)  •  8 Nov 1974  •  Nigeria

Coram
TASLIM OLAWALE ELIAS JSC; GEORGE BAPTIST AYODOLA COKER JSC; DAN IBEKWE JSC;

Judgement

ELIAS, C.J.N. (Delivering the Leading Ruling): In our judgment in Akin-Olugbade and ors. v. Onigbongbo Community and ors. (1974) 6 S.C.J, delivered on June 21, 1974, we made the following orders:

(i) that the joinder of Claudius Adebowale Soderu (deceased) in Suit No. HK/11/59 as one of the 3rd to 31st claimants represented in the consent judgment in Appeals Nos. S.C. 83/1970 and S.C. 369/1970 was inadvertence;

(ii) that the consent judgment is amended so as to exclude C.O. Soderu (deceased) as one of the 3rd to 31st claimants represented in the said consent judgment;

(iii) that the estate of the said C.O. Soderu (deceased) is entitled to be paid compensation of N4,400.00 in respect of his 4,390 acres of land compulsorily acquired by the then Minister of Lagos Affairs, Mines and Power;

(iv) that Chief F.R.A. Williams and the Egba Refugees (1867) Descendants Community should pay over the said sum of N4,400.00 which had been collected by them to the Estate of Claudius Adebowale Soderu (…

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