Residents say the corporate, identified for its aggressive actual property advertising throughout Nigeria, has fenced giant parts of their land and introduced in heavy equipment, together with caterpillars, to start excavation ignoring a subsisting court docket order barring any such exercise.
Residents of Ayegun Oleyo, a group in Ibadan, Oyo State, have accused actual property big, Adron Homes and Properties, of forcefully seizing their ancestral land and defying a sound court docket injunction restraining any growth on the disputed property.
In a video seen one of many aggrieved residents alleged that the corporate, backed by armed thugs and law enforcement officials, stormed their group to start unlawful development and sand excavation regardless of ongoing litigation over the land.
“We did not sell any land to Adron,” the resident declared.
“We are the rightful owners of Agbaoke, Igbo Olowo. We told him (Adron’s own) but he did not listen. Instead, he brought hooligans. They came with guns and other weapons. Maybe they wanted to kill us.”
Residents say the corporate, identified for its aggressive actual property advertising throughout Nigeria, has fenced giant parts of their land and introduced in heavy equipment, together with caterpillars, to start excavation ignoring a subsisting court docket order barring any such exercise.
“There is an injunction stopping them from touching the land,” one other resident mentioned.
“But they keep coming, using thugs and even some compromised police officers to intimidate us. We are living in fear in our own land.”
Residents are actually calling on Governor Seyi Makinde and the Oyo State Government to intervene earlier than the scenario escalates into violence.
“On Wednesday, SaharaReporters published a report alleging that the Lagos State Government and the Nigeria Police have been protecting a powerful syndicate of land grabbers, despite a 2024 directive from the Lagos Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) recommending criminal charges over the unlawful seizure of property valued at over N1.2 billion.”
completely, a Legal Advice issued by the Lagos DPP, which established a prima facie case towards six suspects for offences together with conspiracy to commit felony, theft, forcible entry, and legal property injury.
Yet, a number of months later, no prices have been filed, no arrests made, and the alleged landgrabbers proceed to revenue from the seized land whereas reportedly issuing loss of life threats to the rightful house owners.
One of the victims, who spoke to Reporters, accused the Lagos State Government and the police of complicity and corruption.
“The land is in Egbeda area. The land is two acres. We have a building on it. We have been there for the past 40 years. So it was the police and the armed thugs that the landgrabber used. He used some bad eggs of the police,” the sufferer mentioned.
“They have constructed 9 outlets apart from our constructing now. And they’ve rented it out, and so they have taken over near seven plots of land from the 2 acres.
The supply famous that the land in query is value nearly N1.2billion.
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