Makinde Inspects Rayfield Gardens City Estate As He Commends Fendini Limited On World-Class Estate

  The Oyo State Governor, Engr Seyi Makinde, on Saturday paid an inspection visit to Rayfield Gardens City Estate, Alao Akala GRA in Wofun-Montana area of Ibadan. Governor Makinde commended the developer, Messrs Fendini Limited, for their hard work, creative approach and expressed satisfaction that the project is moving fine, noting the estate’s potential for families. He highlighted the State’s rapid growth and the need for more comfortable living spaces for residents and visitors, leveraging on Oyo State’s competitive and comparative advantage in its sustainable economic reforms. The estate will provide more than 300 residential units, a supermarket, hospital, schools, and other amenities, creating hundreds of jobs for entrepreneurs and youth. The CEO of Fendini, Prince Laja Adeoye, who received and conducted the Governor, Commissioner for Lands Housing and Urban Development, Mr Akin-Funmilayo Williams, Director of Physical Planning Mr Akinwale and other top government functionaries round the class A Estate, emphasized the estate’s world-class features, including stunning duplexes, maisonette, flats, apartments, well paved road network and drainages, power installations, solar street lights, water supply, effective security system and more. The project, is being developed through a public-private partnership initiative, aims to set the pace for excellence in Oyo State’s real estate development. The developer noted that people are already living in the Estate, using the opportunity to appreciate their residents and subscribers, calling on the public to take advantage of the ongoing ‘Build and Move in immediately’ offer, for more people to be a home owner in the Estate. According to Adelaja, he said his company is committed to setting the pace for excellence in real estate development, and that is the reason his team are working round the clock to develop and deliver to their subscribers, an estate with solid infrastructures that will be a reference point as far as the State is concerned in the next 12 months. The governor posited that the Estate is strategically located, that when the Ibadan-Iwo Road, Kute-Jenriyin Road, and other ongoing road constructions are finished, it will boost trade, commerce and provide multiple access to the Estate.

Court Invites Kemi Alao-Akala Over Late Former Gov’s Estate

  The wife of the late former Governor of the Oyo State, Kemi Alao-Akala, has been invited by the state High Court to appear before it within 30 days. The court ordered her and her co-defendant in a suit number 1/443/2023 filed before the Court over the alleged illegal obtaining of a letter of administration over the estate of her late husband, Adebayo Alao-Akala without the consent of the claimant. The court gave the order while granting an ex-parte motion on an order of substituted service brought before it by Dipo Olasope, SAN, counsel to the claimant, Toyin Alao-Aderinto, against Kemi Alao-Akala and Olamide Alabi, over alleged mismanagement of the estate of late Adebayo Alao-Akala by the defendants and their privies. The service of a writ of summons, a copy of which was obtained by PUNCH Online on Saturday in Ibadan, said, “You are hereby commanded that within 30 days after the service of this writ on you, inclusive of the day of this service, you do cause an appearance to be entered for you in action at the instance of the claimant.” The suit marked I/443/2024 is challenging the actions of the defendants, Kemi Alao-Akala and Olamide Alabi, who have been accused of illegally obtaining a letter of administration from the state High Court on October 6, 2022, in connection with late Alao-Akala’s estate, mismanaging the deceased’s assets and property and further excluding the claimant/applicant from benefitting from the distribution of the assets of the estate of late Alao-Akala, the claimant’s father. Oluwatoyin Alao-Aderinto, the first daughter of the deceased, is seeking the leave of the court to declare as illegal, null and void a letter of administration illegally obtained by the duo of Kemi Alao-Akala and Olamide Alabi from the registry of the state High Court and to also grant an order of perpetual injunction, restraining the defendants, including Kemi Alao-Akala and Olamide Alabi, by themselves, agents or privies or whomsoever is claiming through them, from continuing to sell or dispose any asset (real or personal), belonging to the late former Governor of the state, Adebayo Alao-Akala.