A Widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Adetoun Ajibola, who misplaced her husband, Main Olatokunbo Mohammed Ajibola, on September 26, 1992, within the ill-fated navy airplane crash in Ejigbo, Lagos, has appealed to the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the state Home of Meeting to assist appropriate the injustice being carried out to them (she and the 2).
In line with Ajibola, her late husband was among the many navy officers who died within the mishap that occurred within the ill-fated September 26, 1992 C-130 navy plane crash at Ejigbo, Lagos State.
Because of the incident, she was left to boost two sons, however whereas pondering find out how to navigate the burden, Lagos State authorities got here to her help like different widows by way of the allocation of a three-bedroom flat at LMB Property, Isolo, Block 1, flat 4, in any other case generally known as Jakande LSPDC Property, Isolo, Lagos.
“This assist can’t be quantified, because it solved the quick situation of shelter,” she mentioned. åWith this provision of a roof over their heads, she added, “my kids and I’ll stay perpetually grateful to the Lagos State authorities.”
Destiny, nonetheless, dealt the household one other blow, when someday in December 2012, the allotted premises needed to be demolished owing to structural defects found in among the surrounding buildings, resulting in the later demolition of their constructing round this era.
“Whereas some widows introduced collectively by the identical destiny had been fortunate, and had been paid the princely sum of N200,000, and moreover received new allocations, my kids and I unusually weren’t thought-about, as a result of my flat was in a unique constructing.”
Ajibola disclosed that a number of efforts to get the error corrected didn’t yield outcome together with appeals and letters written to previous governors corresponding to Babatunde Fashola and Akinwumi Ambode, taken up pro-bono by totally different attorneys at totally different instances between 2012 until date haven’t yielded outcome.
She added that letters had been additionally written to the Lagos State Growth and Property Company and the Lagos State Emergency Administration Company, however not one of the companies adopted by way of to make sure that the omission was corrected.
“The hardship, ache, humiliation and the confusion, which got here with the lack of our habitat can solely be greatest imagined. It has been eleven years of ready, praying and being hopeful. My humble attraction as a citizen, widow of a gallant and noble officer, who died in lively service is for my hope and that of my kids to be restored,” Ajibola said.
After await about two years with nothing constructive coming, she engaged the service of a lawyer. It was subsequently, not shocking that on September 29, 2014, attorneys from Olanusi Gibson and Associates wrote the then governor, Babatunde Fashola, drawing his consideration to the injustice meted to her.
With nothing constructive popping out of that effort, she determined to personally write Fashola on the problem on November 4, 2014. A observe up letter to the one written earlier was dispatched on February 9, 2015, by Olanusi Gibson and Associates to LASEMA drawing the eye of the company to the anomaly carried out to the late spouse of Ajibola and his kids.
By August 12, 2015, not deterred, Ajibola wrote one other private letter to then Governor Akinwumi Ambode on the matter. This was adopted by the letter from the Ministry of Defence to Lagos State Governor on December 8, 2021 pleading that her case be appeared into.
With no response, she wrote one other private humble attraction letter on March 18, 2024 to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu; the speaker, Lagos State Home of Meeting, Mudashiru Obasa; Commissioner for Particular Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs,Olugbenga Oyerinde and the Particular Adviser on Political, Legislative and Civic Engagement, Dr Tajudeen Afolabi, drawing their consideration to her plight and that of her kids.
Equally, on June 24, 2024, Adegbenro and Co, on her behalf, wrote Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and LASEMA on the problem. However the collection of letters, there haven’t being concrete effort to behave on her case positively. That is regardless of all of the letters that had been written to all of the elected and appointed political leaders, which had been dully obtained of their places of work.
This 12 months alone, her consultant has repeatedly been to the Ministry of Housing however solely guarantees that the unsuitable can be corrected. At some extent, the consultant was instructed the paperwork submitted earlier are lacking and that new paperwork being submitted which has been carried out however nonetheless, it’s movement with out motion. The Public Affairs Officers of the Ministry of Housing, Ganiu Lawal, who was earlier contacted about Ajibola’s complain, was reached out to once more, however he was but to reply on the rationale for the continued delay.
