Royal Family Alleges Death Threats from Land-grabbers

Kayode Fasua in Abeokuta

The Onosa Royal Family in Ijebuland, at the weekend appealed to the Ogun State Police Commissioner, Mr. Edward Ajogun, to help secure the lives of its members from some land-grabbers threatening to exterminate them all.
The family has also enjoined the police commissioner to help it enforce a court order, granting it possession of several thousands of hectares of land in the locality, which the land-grabbers had seized.

The family, from Odo-Onosa community of Ikosi-Ejinrin Local Council Development Area, under Epe local council of Lagos State, said the contested land lapped to Lugben Araromi Abatiwa and Ita-Ala, up to Rusewe in Odogbolu Local Government area of Ogun State.

In a recent petition to Ajogun, through the Assistant Chief Registrar of the state’s High Court of Justice, the Onosa family expressed frustration over its efforts to enforce the judgment concerning the landmass conceded to it.

The claimants, of the Onosa Ruling House, had in a lingering land dispute suit, secured a judgment from the state’s High Court of Justice, Ijebu-Ode Division on May 3, 2018.

In the suit, the court had declared that the disputed land of 271.03 hectares belonged to the Onosa ruling house.
The ruling house in the suit had been represented by Otunba David Okelarin and six others, being claimants, against Morufu Karounwi Salau and 17 others, being defendants.

In its petition to the Ogun State Police Command, renewed for the umpteenth time at the weekend, the Onosa Ruling House stated, “We hereby apply for four armed policemen to assist the bailiffs of this honourable court in executing the…judgment in compliance with the laid down directive, please.

“The parties and certified true copy of the judgment and the duly agreed writ of possession