Lawyers to Asa Investment Limited and the Saraki family have called on the Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Victor Olaitan, to restrain Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq from violating the existing court rule on the plot of land hitherto called “Ile-Arugbo” said to be property of the late Abubakar Olusola Saraki.
A petition to the police chief, signed by Barrister A. A. Ibraheem, a copy made available to The Guardian recalled that a Kwara State High Court in Ilorin had restrained the state from undertaking construction works on the said plots of land pending the final determination of the case. 
According to the counsel, Justice A. O. Akinpelu gave the interim restraining order in a suit filed by Asa Investment, the Saraki family and another person against Governor Abdulrazaq, Kwara State House of Assembly, state’s Attorney-General, Director-General, State Bureau of Lands and Inspector-General of Police.
In addition to the interim order, the immediate past Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Salman Jawondo (SAN,), signed an undertaking on behalf of the state government not to engage or do anything on the land until the conclusion of the case, he added.
“However, in a brazen display of disregard for the rule of law, Governor Abdulrazaq, last week, ordered the clearing of the disputed Ile-Arugbo land, despite a subsisting court order prohibiting his government from taking any action on the property, raising concerns about the governor’s commitment to upholding the law,” the petition alleged.
The lawyers alleged of seeing agents of the state government demolishing structures and buildings on the land, while the suit is still pending and not finally determined or struck out by the court.
They submitted that the government’s actions “constitute contempt of court,” and urged the police to take necessary steps to ensure compliance with the law to avoid acts capable of causing breakdown of law and order in Ilorin.
“Acts of lawlessness and breach of order of a competent court of law are least expected of an executive governor of a state, who ought to be an enforcer of the law,” the lawyers declared.
