The Solicitors of Mrs Funke Otti, GTC Legal professionals has written a petition dated March 3, 2025, to Kayode Egbetokun Inspector General of Police, IGP, to report a person (Whose title is quoted within the petition), accusing him of Felony conversion of Property, forceful entry, unlawful possession of firearms and menace to life amongst others.
Within the mentioned petition, the Solicitors on behalf of Mrs. Otti, sought the intervention and a focus of the IGP to hold out an intensive investigation on the listed offences of the accused who the petition claimed to have violently, forcefully and in possession of firearms, unlawfully gained entrance into her 20 Acres property positioned on the Lagos – Ibadan Expressway by Shagamu.
The Property in line with the petition property is fenced, has three separate occupied 3-Bed room bungalows android a safety home price over 350,000,000 (Three Hundred and Fifty Million Naira Solely) located on the property.
The petition reads partly; “The accused and his gangs forcefully entered the aforementioned property with grave threats of violence, capturing sporadically into the air to scare employees who have been busy on-site. The sudden incident left the employees with no choice however to run for his or her lives, which consequently resulted in a few of them sustaining extreme accidents.
“After succeeding in chasing our Shopper’s workers and Safety Personnel out of the premises, they pulled down the constructions and made away with the next development tools: CAT Excavator, Pay Loader, Industrial Water Pump, Flood Gentle Generator, and a number of other different development tools with a complete worth of about Six Hundred Million Na ra (N600,000,000).
“Nonetheless, the accused didn’t solely cease at his quite a few and infamous acts of prison conversion, he additionally fraudulently offered the mentioned property to a Chinese language firm, which is at present in possession of the property. It is usually our utmost concern that regardless of repeated efforts made to hint the whereabouts of the accused and his accomplices, all makes an attempt have proved abortive, as he has continued to threaten to kill our Shopper from his hideout.” The petition states.
The Counsel additionally mentioned, “After the prison invasion of the property, the accused engaged one other accused particular person whose title can be withheld to write down a frivolous petition to Space Command, Sagamu, Ogun State to take custody of the tools which was falsely reported to Police that they have been constituting nuisance on the accuse’s land. They connived inside themselves to destroy the fence, the gatehouse and drove the safety guards away and offered the land to Chinese language Nationals who took over the land and redeveloped it.
“To indicate the accused is a infamous land grabber, he was just lately arrested and charged to courtroom by the Lagos State Taskforce over a land he forcibly took over at Agidingbi, Ikeja early this yr, the matter continues to be on .”
The petitioner went on by way of the petition to respectfully name on the Inspector General of Police to make use of his good workplaces to analyze the matter completely and produce the accused and his gang to e-book, saying, “we’re notably involved concerning the security and well-being of our Shopper, who continues to stay in concern because of the threats to her life.
“We belief in your capability to make sure that justice is served and that these accountable for these prison acts are apprehended and prosecuted in accordance with the legislation.” They affirmed.
