Police arrest ‘illegal’ Ogun state monarch, four others for land grabbing, threat to life, attempted murder

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) attached to the Special Investigation Department(SID) of the Force Criminal Intelligent and Investigation Department(FCIID), Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos State have arrested the acclaimed monarch of Oluke-Orile town, via Itori in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, Mr. Ishau Adeola Balogun.

The monarch was arrested for alleged attempted murder, trespass, public assault, willful and malicious damage as well as the grabbing of the land belonging to the children of late Chief Arayomi Osuji at Oluke-Orile and Ipaso-Oluke town in Egbaland.

SaharaReporters learnt that others arrested alongside the monarch were one Mr Balogun, Shakiru Onadimokun, Bamitale Jubril Akinsanya, Kabiru Onadimokun, and Benjamin Oluwalolese.

The accused persons had also allegedly boasted to terminate the lives of the children of the late Osuji for preventing them from encroaching on their father’s landed property.

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It was reliably gathered that the accused persons were rearrested after they jumped police bail at the State Police Command, Eleweran, Abeokuta.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) under its official, Mrs. Sijuwade Adetona has also taken over the matter from the human rights body, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ) as the police authorities directed a Senior Police officer to be in charge of the matter at the Alagbon Police Headquarters Annex.

It would be recalled that the Osuji Arayomi family of Oluke-Orile town had earlier disowned Mr. Kazeem Ajiboye, an acclaimed land agent and the Chief Executive Officer(CEO), Oluomo & Company, Ota, and warned him to stay away from their landed property situated at Oluke-Orile and Ipaso town.

They had confirmed this in an Affidavit of Claims of Landed Property belonging to late Chief Arayomi Osuji and deposed to by the six children of the late chief.

The names of the children are; Chief Babatunde Jimoh Arayomi, Mrs. Olayide Adunni Osayemi, Mr. Idris Olamilekan Arayomi, Alfa Saburi Olawale Arayomi, Mr. Kolawole Adio Olaogun-Arayomi and Mrs. Fausat Modupeola Malomo.

Meanwhile, the CHRSJ called on the Inspector General of Police(IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, and the Chairman, Police Service Commission(PSC), Solomon Arase, to ensure justice for the children of late Osuji Arayomi on the subject matter, in which the arrested accused persons were planning to take over their inheritance through the backdoor with violent attacks and in support with the criminality connection of a serving woman inspector, Sherifat Balogun.

The inspector is attached to the Lafenwa Police Station in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, with support of one acclaimed Islamic Cleric, but land grabber, Imam Muhammed and his thug, Sesan Olaogun, who are now at large.

Reacting to the development on Friday, the CHRSJ’s Executive Chairman, Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, urged the police handling the matter at Alagbon Force Headquarters presently to ensure that the accused persons were charged to court after the investigation of the police might have been concluded without further delay in order to save the lives of the children of Osuji Arayomi.

Recalling that the arrest was a result of the earlier CHRSJ Petition Letter dated Wednesday 2nd day of March, 2022, where the CHRSJ called for an immediate arrest, investigation, interrogation and possible prosecution of the aforementioned alleged thugs and land-grabbers, he added that the “late Chief Arayomi Osuji was the owner of the landed property situated, lying and being at Oluke-Orile town, measuring approximately 91.988 Hectares and 227.308 acres of land vide provisional copy Survey Plan NO.OG/93/2021/012 and another one at Ipaso, Oluke-Orile village via Itori in Ewekoro Local Government area of Ogun State, measuring approximately (A)91.518 Hectres and 226.147 acres of land, (B)5.030Hectres and 12.431 acres of land vide provisional copy Survey Plan N0:OG/93/2021/012. [SaharaReporters]