Family Petitions Lagos Police Chief Over Land

The Adoyi Alashe chieftaincy family in Lagos has petitioned the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Yakubu Alkali, over alleged illegal sale of their land.

They said their land worth N500 million was allegedly sold without any remittance to them.

The family alleged that four men constituted themselves into a gang of land speculators and trespassers, selling Adoyi Alashe’s family land with impunity without remitting money to the family.

In their 15 September, 2011 petition signed by Poxirince Abeeb Faronbi, Alhaji Abubakaree Faronbi, Mr. Lamidi Salami, Chief Lasisi Arubo, Alhaja Kudiratu Onishile, Mr. Adesina Onishile and Alhaja Oluwatoyin Onishile, the petitioners urged the police to invite those allegedly responsible.

They stated that they are the accredited members representing the three major branches of the Adoyi Alashe Chieftaincy Family and that there was a conspiracy to deprive them of their land, therefore urging the police to investigate the matter, bring the perpetrators to book and help recover the money for the family.

They stated further that they were the rightful owners of Adoyi land at Anthony Village, Maryland, Wasinmi in Onigbongbo and its environs.

They disclosed that Adoyi Alashe settled on the vast area of land that today formed part of Mushin, Ikeja and Somolu districts of Lagos State, adding that dispute over ownership of the land had been raised and settled at the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court respectively and that the courts had given judgments in favour of Adoyi Alashe chieftaincy family.

The petitioners stated specifically that a Lagos High Court had in a judgment delivered in 1988 by Justice Olusola Thomas, held that all the parcel of land situate at Idi-Iroko Village, Ikorodu Road, rightly belong to Alashe chieftaincy family.

While warning potential land buyers to beware, the family said they were yet to appoint any attorney or surveyor to sell the land.