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ADO-ODO/OTA LGA, OGUN STATE, NIGERIA – The residents of Ikese-Igbesa community in the Ado – Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State now live in palpable fears as signs that peace may soon elude the peaceful town appeared recently over plans by some land grabbers to forcefully break into a fenced parcel of land belonging to Messrs Aremo Arowolo and Waheed Nafiu.
In a “Save Our Soul” letter to the Ogun State Government by an Ikese-Igbesa community leader, Elder Julius Adebayo, the Igbesa Grade II Customary court holden at Igbesa on December 12, 2023 had given judgement in favour of Messrs Aremo Saheed Arowolo and Waheed Nafiu as owners of Attorney over the disputed 10 acres of land.
Elder Adebayo further stated that the case, which was later appealed on May 9, 2024 in the Customary Court of Appeal holden at Abeokuta also ended in favour of Messrs Aremo Saheed Arowolo and Waheed Nafiu as the Panel of Judges ruled that once the family (Idolupana) had willingly given the power of Attorney to the duo on the 10 acres of land, they no longer had any authority to turn back to lay claim to the land
Elder Adebayo stressed that in the appeal judgement, the court ruled that there was no way the lower Court could grant the claim of the Appealants in view of the oral and documentary pieces of evidence that were grossly against them in the case now on appeal and therefore resolved the issues in the appeal against the Appealants.
“While dismissing the appeal, the court described the Appealants’ appeal as frivolous, vexatious, unwarranted and baseless, thereby attracting the cost of N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) against the Appealants and in favour of the Respondents.
Elder Adebayo, however, added that the Plaintiffs’ insistence on non-release of the disputed land in spite of the two court judgements and the execution on the writ of possession on May 15, 2025 in favour of the Defendants’ was a ploy to ignite a long crisis in the peaceful town.
He, therefore, appealed to the Ogun State Government to urge the Plaintiffs’ in the disputed land to respect the court judgements and writ of possession on the land and allow peace, order and tranquility to reign in the community as no Ogun town wants any crisis considering the ongoing security challenges the country is currently facing.
In his remarks on the disputed land, one of the Respondents, Aremo Saheed Arowolo, explained that what amused him was the fact that in spite of both the two judgements and the efforts of the Appeal Court Registrar, the Plaintiffs and the Defendants’ inspection of the disputed land on August 23, 2023, which affirmed that the Defendants’ as bonafide owners of the said 10 acres of land and got it highly fenced and gated in the presence of the Plaintiffs’ family members, the Plaintiffs could still be disturbing them on the land with tough looking land grabbers who were wielding dangerous and harmful weapons and charms.
He said that the Plaintiffs’ attempt to continue causing crisis on the land was a contempt of the court, more so that they had refused to appeal the two judgements on the disputed land.
