A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has asked officials of the Mushin Local Government to stop its plan to demolish some parts of the popular Ladipo auto spare-part market.
The order issued on Friday will subsist pending the determination of an application filed by the traders before the court presided by Justice Iyabo Akinkugbe.
Justice Akinkugbe said it will only be in the interest of justice that the local government officials put the demolition plan on hold pending the determination of the suit challenging the project.
Some auto spare parts dealers, who own shops at the market, had headed for court claiming that the planned demolition would distort the peaceful nature of the environment.
The traders represented by Nnamdi Chukwuka, Franco Offai, and eight others in the suit had through their counsel, Richard Nwankwo, filed a Motion on Notice brought pursuant to Order 38 Rules 2&8, and Order 39 Rules 3(1), seeking “for an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the defendant, either by itself, agents officials, privies, servants or persons, from unlawfully going into or carrying out any demolitions or ejection of the applicants from their respective business premises at the market pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit filed before the court.”
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