Oyo Group Protests Towards Adron Firm, Alleges Land Grabbing, Bringing Of Armed Thugs Regardless of Court docket Injunction

Residents say the corporate, identified for its aggressive actual property advertising and marketing throughout Nigeria, has fenced massive parts of their land and introduced in heavy equipment, together with caterpillars, to start excavation ignoring a subsisting courtroom order barring any such exercise.

Residents of Ayegun Oleyo, a group in Ibadan, Oyo State, have accused actual property big, Adron Houses and Properties, of forcefully seizing their ancestral land and defying a sound courtroom 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 cops, stormed their group to start unlawful development and sand excavation regardless of ongoing litigation over the land.

“We didn’t promote any land to Adron,” the resident declared.

“We’re the rightful house owners of Agbaoke, Igbo Olowo. We advised him (Adron’s personal) however he didn’t pay attention. As a substitute, he introduced hooligans. They got here with weapons and different weapons. Perhaps they wished to kill us.”

Residents say the corporate, identified for its aggressive actual property advertising and marketing throughout Nigeria, has fenced massive parts of their land and introduced in heavy equipment, together with caterpillars, to start excavation ignoring a subsisting courtroom order barring any such exercise.

“There may be an injunction stopping them from touching the land,” one other resident mentioned.

“However they hold coming, utilizing thugs and even some compromised cops to intimidate us. We live in worry in our personal land.”

Residents at the moment are calling on Governor Seyi Makinde and the Oyo State Authorities to intervene earlier than the scenario escalates into violence.

“On Wednesday, SaharaReporters printed a report alleging that the Lagos State Authorities and the Nigeria Police have been defending a robust syndicate of land grabbers, regardless of a 2024 directive from the Lagos Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) recommending legal prices over the illegal seizure of property valued at over N1.2 billion.”

completely, a Authorized Recommendation 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.

But, 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 many victims, who spoke to Reporters, accused the Lagos State Authorities and the police of complicity and corruption.

“The land is in Egbeda space. The land is 2 acres. We’ve a constructing on it. We’ve been there for the previous 40 years. So it was the police and the armed thugs that the landgrabber used. He used some dangerous eggs of the police,” the sufferer mentioned.

“They’ve constructed 9 retailers apart from our constructing now. And so they have rented it out, they usually have taken over near seven plots of land from the 2 acres.

The supply famous that the land in query is price virtually N1.2billion.

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