Segun Ayinde
Two persons have been critically injured when thugs suspected to be land grabbers in their hundreds invaded Adumbu village in Ewokoro Local Government Area of Ogun State to take over the possession of seven acres of land meant to build primary school for the community.
The land grabbers led by the duo of Mojeed Solabi and TaofeekOgunjobi invaded the community with dangerous weapons including broken bottles, axes and cutlasses on January 25, 2023 and unleashed mayhem on the residents.
A resident of the community Azeez Onatade told our correspondent that the land grabbers machete the right arm of a bricklayer, Lakan and also beat a motorcyclist otherwise known as Okada man to stupor and even sacked members of the community from their homes.
“They attack a bricklayer, Lekan working on the land and machete his arm. They also attack an Okada man and beat him to stupor that blood started coming out of his nose. Both of them had gone to treat themselves.” he added.
Residents of the community in a ”Save Our Letter’ to the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole signed by an Elder of the Village, Dr. Dele Onatade and the Secretary, Chief RantiFalola, asked the police to come to their rescue over the allege threat to their lives and properties by the duo of Solabi and Ogunjobi.
They said the two land grabbers have been terrorizing and threatening the peace of the community since February 2013, when they invaded the village and sacked the entire community including the late Baale, Chief Olalekan Ogunjobi over 4,000 hectares of land.
The residents said that Solabi the leader of the gang was declared wanted by the police that year but ran away and later resurface to start his land grabbing activities when he led some thugs believed to be land grabbers from Sang-Ota to the communal land and unleashed mayhem on the community.
They appealed to the CP Bankole to urgently take stiff action against the duo for impeding on the land and selling some parts of it as well as ordering police personnel to the village to secure the lives and properties of the people before things get to the worst.
The letter partly reads: We hereby forward this letter to you to save our soul from both Mr. Mojeed and Mr. Taofeek Ogunjobithe duo that have been terrorizing the community since 2013.”
“By the time the land grabbers are conniving with some traditional rulers to unleash mayhem on Adumbi the Baale-in-Council decided to transfer a portion of land to local government for development project majorly school”
” Arising from the fact that located government did not expedite action on the land the community decided to source money this year and started building the school, it was at this junction that Mojeed Solabi and Taofeek Ogunjobi decided to impede activities on the land because they have sold the land part” it added
