Honourable Funmi Tejuosho, member Lagos State House of Assembly is in hot soup as she has been ejected from a house she has been occupying illegally for years now.

The property is the official quarter of the Deputy Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, a two wings of a five bedroom semi-detached house located at 3 Sasegbon Street, Ikeja GRA. The property valued at hundreds of millions of Naira was in 2010 offered to Honourable Funmi Tejuosho, through her company, Debam Mega Solutions Limited, for a sum far less than half of the value.

But seven years after the offer, barely half of the offered sum has been paid to the Lagos State Government coffers by the company. Sources disclosed that it was actually assigned to her in her capacity as the deputy-speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly. However, Tejuosho was impeached as deputy speaker and was expected to vacate the premises which she refused to do.

Rather than vacate the property, Tejuosho offered to buy the house and the then Speaker, Ikuforiji and former Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, jointly raised an objection, saying emphatically that an official quarter of Deputy Speaker could not be sold to her. Also, Tejuosho was reported to have ignored several letters sent to her to vacate the property for another deputy speaker. Instead, she headed to the High court to prove sale of the property to her company.

Sources disclosed that Tejuosho tried every means to retain the house as she had done unlawfully for the past seven years using litigation. Unfortunately, she made a slip in her case which necessitated it being struck out. We gathered that the government simply took advantage before she re-filed or have same relisted to eject her as the matter is no longer in court. The source described Tejuosho as a trespasser in the property. She is not a tenant as she has not been paying any rents on the property. Neither is she a licencee as she has no licence from the owners of the property to occupy same.

Insiders that the property at 3 Sasegbon Street, Ikeja GRA, is an official residence of the Deputy Speaker. The deputy speaker that succeeded Tejuosho was deprived of the property as well as the current deputy speaker, Wasiu Eshinlokun and that the Lagos State House of Assembly eventually took the decision to eject her and not Governor Ambode.