From Our Correspondent, Abeokuta
The Police in Ogun have arrested a Community Leader of Idiya Area in Abeokuta, following a plethora of petitions over allegations of land grabbing.
TheNewsZenith gathered that the Police have consequently charged the community leader (Baale of Idiya), Chief Quadri Kudaisi, to Court over allegations of land grabbing.
Aggrieved residents have submitted many petitions to the Ogun State Land Grabbing Committee and the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) against Kudaisi, over a series of land-grabbing allegations.
The Police arraigned the Baale on Wednesday, July 10 at the Magistrate Court, Isabo to face charges relating to land grabbing.
Such activities violate the Ogun State Anti-Land Grabbing Law.
TheNewsZenith reports that the matter has drawn attention following a petition submitted by Jamiu Folarin, a journalist and researcher, against the Kudaisi.
Folarin had initially filed a petition at the Sabo/Ilupeju Police Station, highlighted threats to his life and malicious damage to his property.
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He attributed the threat to his life and malicious damage to his property to the investigation he conducted on criminal activities of land grabbers in the State.
The case was, subsequently, transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) at Eleweran.
BudgIT, a civic organisation also wrote the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alamutu, calling for an investigation of the matter.
The Crescent University Cooperative Society (CRESCOOPS) equally petitioned the Land Grabbing Committee against the same community leader over land touting allegation.
Also, the owner of the expanse of the land who sold to the CRESCOOPS, Chief Sonaiki submitted another petition against him.
TheNewsZenith recalls that former governor, Sen. Ibikunle Amosun’s administration assented to the Anti-land grabbing bill into law in 2015. The law criminalise activities of land grabbers in Ogun State.
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