Deeper Life Bible Church has concluded plans to commence the construction of the permanent campus of its Anchor University on a 40-hectare parcel of land earmarked for the project in Maba Town on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
Addressing journalists at the church’s headquarters in Gbagada, Lagos, the chairman of the Land and Building Committee, Pastor Alfred Oghene, said the project site was part of a large expanse of land already housing several structures, notably the Deeper Life Camp among others.
He said the church had directed that all illegal structures, machinery and other personal possessions on the affected land be removed by their owners for the project’s take-off.
The church said the take-off of the project had been delayed to give all illegal occupants ample time to vacate the land, even though the Ogun State High Court had granted it the order of demolition to remove such structures since April 2022.
The order of demolition was granted by Justice Abiodun Akinyemi on April 4, 2022, in pursuant of an earlier ruling by the same court on July 15, 2016, in suit Number AB/251/2008 wherein the church, as claimant, was granted a declaration of title, damages for trespass and perpetual injunction, among other reliefs, in respect of the land in dispute. Also, following the subsisting 2016 ruling of the court, a warrant for possession to complete the process of right of legal possession of the land by the church was granted on 8th May, 2017 and executed via a writ of possession dated January 1, 2018.
“The inspector-general of police had also directed the Ogun State Police Command in a letter dated 21st June, 2022, with reference Number CB:3594/IGP.SEC/ABJ/VOL.9/28, to provide the church with all police facilities required to aid the possession.
“The IGP’s directive followed a request made by the church’s legal representatives for police presence and supervision of the execution of the order of demolition granted by the honourable court. The request was made via a letter dated 20th June, 2022,” he said.
