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Lagos Royal Family Takes Over 75-Year-Old Widow’s Property
- The illegal activities of land grabbers have been criminalised by the Lagos state government
- The victim’s daughter disclosed that the activities of the land grabbers in the area is out of control
A 75-year-old widow, Kehinde Agbetanmije, has disclosed how she lost her landed property on Adetayo Street, Alake, Ikotun-Idimu Road, after suspected hoodlums allegedly sponsored by a royal family invaded the community on Monday.
The men, reportedly numbering about 20, allegedly threatened to beat the woman’s daughter who questioned their presence on the property.
Bricklayers were also said to have been quickly brought on the land, as they began erecting a fence around it.
Kehinde’s daughter, Olayemi Oshinusi, who spoke on her behalf, said efforts to get the police at the Idimu division to act on the family’s complaints were not successful.
The 46-year-old noted that the police, despite collecting money from them after she lodged a formal complaint, refused to visit the scene.
“My late father bought the land in 1977. It is actually two plots of land. He built a two storey building on one plot, and the second plot, he left as a garden. Both plots are fenced together.
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“We decided to put the land to use by giving it to people for business. First was an ice block trader, and later a bakery owner; both of them relocated after they got their permanent sites.
“On Monday, we were called by people that some strange people were sighted on the land. They said the land grabbers were about 20 in number. I went there with my mother and saw they had started digging and mapping the land, including erecting a structure. When we tried to stop them, they threatened to deal with me and my mother and did not answer our questions,” she narrated.
She also said she raced to the palace of the Isheri traditional ruler, Oba Wahab Balogun, who denied knowing the intruders.
“They refused to do anything. Later, we heard that the people behind the whole thing had paid them. As I speak to you, the land grabbers have built a fence and created their own gate on the land. We have all the land documents, receipts, survey plan,” Oshinusi added.
She said when an uncle visited the property with another omo onile, they were informed that a prince in the community, identified as Idris Balogun, was behind it.
She bemoaned the spate at which land was being taken over in the community by land grabbers, adding that several people lost their property to a syndicate in the area.
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Meanwhile, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, has urged the family to report the case to the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu.
He promised that the complaint against the officers who allegedly took money from Oshinusi would also be looked into by the force.
“We won’t condone such unprofessional acts of policemen should the allegations be confirmed. We assure her of justice in the matter,” he added.
In his defence, Idris denied sending hoodlums to the land, adding that another member of his family was in charge of the property.
He explained that the Isheri Olofin family got a court judgement giving it right to acres of land in the community.
He said: “The place in question belongs to the Isheri Olofin family. Those who sold the land to those people are trespassers; the Isheri Olofin family got a judgement against them after 35 to 40 years in court. And the land in question is vacant. Anything that is vacant, the judgement overrules it.”
According to Idris, the woman’s family does not have documents to back up their claims of ownership.
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