Kazeem Jimoh
The Baale of Imokun Community, in Eredo Local Council Development Council (LCDA) of Lagos State, Chief Suwaliu Muritala, has urged the Lagos State Government to stop activities of land grabbers tormenting residents of the area.
The traditional ruler made the plea while addressing newsmen, in Epe, adding that Odo-Egiri, Imokun, Ketu, Araga and Eredo communities were being tormented.
He said that the serene of the communities were gradually degenerating through the nefarious activities of some land grabbers, otherwise called ‘’Ajagungbale’.
Muritala, narrated his ordeal recently in the hands of the land grabbers, as they invaded the community, destroying property worth millions of naira, chasing away the original land owner on their land while working.
Said he, “These land speculator/grabbers activities which no doubt is alien to the community has created turmoil and apprehension.
“The land grabbers tormented our people under the pretext of buying landed properties from unsolicited segment of a particular family, all with ‘fake land purchase agreement’ to enable them to have the gut to cause vandalism and maiming of innocent citizens within the above mentioned communities.
“One Hon. Abiodun, a ‘Land Agent’ desperately sourcing for money and having insatiable taste for land commissions brought in the land grabbers.
“Abiodun, brought the well known notorious gangster and unrepentant land grabber known as Owoeye and his co-host called. ‘Jogunomi’.
“More disheartening is that the activities of Owoeye is being extended to institutionalizing cultists’ activities within the communities, as Owoeye, brought gun and other dangerous weapons to some notable youths as gifts-imagine !‘’
On his part, a member of the Nigeria institute of Quantity Surveyors and Valuers (NIQSV) Epe division, Prince Adeyemi Adebomehin, lamented that the crisis caused by the land grabbers has cost the division a lot of money in settling disputes.
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He said that several millions of naira and properties had been injected into solving the dilemma caused by the land grabbers in the community.
Adebomehin, mentioned the communities to include, Imokun, Eredo, Epe Central, Ikosi-Ejinrin, Agbowa, Ibeju-Lekki, among others.
He said that several petitions had been written to the Lagos State Commissioner of police, Divisional Police Station in Noforija and Epe.
Traditional rulers in Epe division, Nigerian Army, community leaders, Politicians and Department of State Services (DSS), all to no avail.