Two die as hoodlums take over Ibadan estate, sack NUJ President, Tech-U VC, others
Local Government Area of Oyo state on Monday raised the alarm that
they are under siege as hundreds of hoodlums stormed their homes,
destroying property worth several millions of naira.
We learnt that the families of Chief Emmanuel Ashamu, Chief Femi
Majekodumi, Oyenike Ogunsola and late Ganiyu Bello secured a Supreme
Court judgment ceding part of the 30-year-old estate to them about two
months ago.
About 250 houses in the estate, it was gathered, were affected by the
Supreme Court judgment.
But landlords in the estate, who opted for amicable settlement,
declared that over 85 per cent of the affected property were sold to
them by the families that secured the judgment.
Many house owners including the National President, Nigeria Union of
Journalists, Mr. Waheed Odusile and Vice Chancellor of Technical
University, Ibadan, Professor Ayobami Salami have their homes
deserted.
A Director in the Ibarapa Local Government Town Planning Department,
54-year-old Funsho Adeniran, and & 74-year-old Grace Adefunke Ojo were
said to have collapsed and died after their buildings were padlocked
immediately the occupants have been sacked by the hoodlums.
The rampaging hoodlums, who were alleged to be acting on the orders of
a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Femi Majekodumi and
Chief Emmanuel Ashamu, have demolished several properties as well as
used padlock and chains to lock houses belonging to residents of the
estate.
The hoodlums and their principals were alleged to have defied the
orders of the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji to
vacate the estate. The hoodlums, it was gathered, had threatened to
attack the Olubadan's Palace guards, who came to the estate to deliver
the monarch's message.
This was after landlords in the estate protested to the Popoyemoja,
Ibadan palace of the Olubadan, calling on on him to intervene in the
crisis which engulfed the estate.
Chairman, Ire-Akari Estate Landlord Association, Engineer Adetunji
Adelani, while speaking with journalists on Monday, said hundreds of
residents have fled the estate in fear of attack, while cases of
looting and armed robbery were then common-place.
Adelani, while calling on the state Governor, Abiola Ajimobi and the
Commissioner of Police to provide adequate security in the area, said,
"As am talking to you now security has collapsed in the estate and our
lives are no longer save.
"Since we heard of the judgment, we have been engaging the agents in
peace meeting. At the end they insisted on execution of the judgment,
except the families of Ganiyu Bello who told us through their lawyer
that they do not give anybody the power of attorney and that they are
not interested in the execution of the judgment.
"The agents came to the estate on June 13,2018 with about 20 policemen
and dozens of thugs and started to lock houses with chains and padlock
after we have agreed to pay N200,000 per each building. Despite the
fact that some landlords have started paying the agreed fee , the
hoodlums went ahead to demolish their property."
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