A human rights organisation, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice, has concluded arrangements to petition President Muhammadu Buhari and relevant authorities over alleged illegal trespass, wilful and malicious damage, breaking and entry into the Arayomi Family land situated at Oluke-Orile/Ipaso-Oluke town via Itori in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State by the Chairman of Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote.
The Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice made its position known in a statement it issued on Friday in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
It accused the Olu of Itori, Oba Fatai Akamo, and another traditional chief, Ishau Adeola Balogun, who it said came from Saki in Oyo State for daily bread in the area, of alleged involvement in the land deal with Dangote Group of Companies.
It added that they have allegedly scammed Alhaji Dangote and collected huge sums of money on the land that does not belong to them.
The rights group vowed to use all democratic means to ensure that the said land was retrieved from those who thought they were untouchable in the country for the poor children of late Arayomi Osuji, who it said own it.
The group also plans to write a strongly worded letter to Dangote to inform him of the real owner of the said land with evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt and to know that his Company had allegedly been scammed.
The rights group said Ishau Balogun, one Olu-Omo of Itele Ota, Chief Kazeem Ajiboye and others had been dragged before the Inspector General of Police.
It was earlier alleged that Balogun, Ajiboye and others were threatening the lives of the children of Osuji for rejecting their bid to encroach their father’s landed property situated at Oluke-Orile/Ipaso-Oluke town.
Condemning the action of those who sold the land belonging to Osuji’s children through a signed statement, CHRSJ Executive Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, on Thursday urged the police in charge of the matter at the Ogun State Police Command Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, to do the needful of charging the matter to a court of competent jurisdiction for possible prosecution of the aforementioned alleged land grabbers.
Meanwhile, to support their ownership of the said landed property, the children of late Osuji had earlier approached the State High Court of Justice sitting in Abeokuta for Affidavit of Affirmation dated March 1, 2022.
According to the Affidavit: “That the late Chief Arayomi Osuji was the head of Olaogun- Arayomi family in Oluke-Orile village via Itori, Ewekoro Local Government area of Ogun State, who died on 17th of March,1949.
“Late Chief Arayomi Osuji was the owner of the landed property situated, lying and being at Oluke-Orile village, measuring approximately 91.988 hectares and 227.308 acres of land vide provisional copy Survey Plan NO.OG/93/2021/012 and another one at Ipaso, Oluke-Orile village via Itori in Ewekoro Local Government area of Ogun State, measuring approximately (A)91.518 Hectares and 226.147 acres of land, (B)5.030Hectres and 12.431 acres of land vide provisional copy Survey Plan N0:OG/93/2021/012.
“That the children namely; Chief Babatunde Jimoh Arayomi, Mrs. Fausat Modupeola Malomo(nee Arayomi): +234 7062411372, Mr. Kolawole Adio Olaogun-Arayomi (+2347038895630), Mrs. Olayide Adunni Osayemi (nee Arayomi) +2349020309324, Alfa Saburi Olawale Arayomi (+2348155304775), and Idrish Olamilekan Arayomi (+2347086314247), inherited the said landed property after the death of their late father, Chief Arayomi Osuji.”