Land Tussle : Popular Party Leader Name Mentioned In Homicide Mess
-John Umeh
A Popular mushin elder statesman and self acclaimed APC
Chieftain, Alh. Taoreed Farounbi, AKA Alado has been alleged to be involved in
a land dispute between two families at Whitesand Community in Festac-Amuwo
Odofin area of lagos, that claimed the lives of two people, and injured some.
Although, two people have been arrested in connection to the
dispute, The gory incident, according to the populace of the community, isn’t
far from the involvement of the APC Chieftain.
The incident happened On Thursday March 19, 2020, investigation
revealed that over 50 hoodlums attacked members of Kuje Amuwo Orofin’s family,
the members are: Monsuru Akande, Surveyor Bayo Benson (Whose security details
was seriously wounded and attacked) , Alhaji Akande’s Vehicles windscreen was
broken and vandalised, his Techno LA 7 Phone was forcefully taken and
confiscated by the hoodlums who are said to be from Alado.
In the attack, two boys
working for the Kuje Family on the land, namely, Oluwoyo Debo (A labourer) whose
dead body was taken to the festac police station before an hospital and Daniel
Chibuzor, a recharge card seller, taken to Ikoyi hospital, were hacked and
stabbed respectively to death.
According to reports, This menace was properly monitored by
Alhaji Taoreed Farounbi ‘Alado’ , Segun Akinde (A.k.a Segun Echo), Ayokunle
Fakiyesi, Ikechukwu (a.ka Ik), a police officer Inspector Nureni Agoro, Musiliu
Idowu, Inspector Adewale Olopa from SARS among others.
According to investigation
conducted in the neighborhood they confirmed to us that they have to run for
cover because the attack was much on the Kuje’s family.
Who
is Taoreed Farombi on the land ?
According to our
investigation, we gathered that Fagbile Isheri-Oshun employed the service
Alhaji Taoreed Farombi also known as Alado as their agent on the land.
It will be worthy or
constructive to also mention that there had in the past been misgivings and
allegation of trespass unto the land between Kuje Amuwo royal family and
Fagbile Isheri-Oshun
• Cause of Attack
According to investigation
and a report by Vanguard Crime Guard, The Cable and Daily Independent, we
gathered that the attack was as a result of a misunderstanding between two
families from Amuwo Odofin and Isheri –Oshun, over land boundary.
We also learned that those
attacked were invited to Whitesand on the pretext of a peace meeting on the
disputed boundary, only to meet the unexpected.
Narrating what transpired
that fateful day, head of the Kuje Amuwo Royal family, Chief Ligali Suabu
Hassan, said, “For some time now, we have been having issues with the Fagbile
family in Isheri Oshun over boundary issues on our land but we have never
experienced anything like what happened on Thursday.
“We have our surveyor and
they have their surveyor too but they hired an agent to be selling the land for
them.
“The two families met and
agreed to invite a neutral surveyor, who has a vast knowledge of the boundaries
of all the communities in Amuwo-Odofin, Isheri Oshun and other parts.
“Before the agreed date for
the boundary resolution, we wrote a letter to the police at FESTAC division to
give us policemen who would serve as witnesses.
“When our people got there,
they saw policemen and soldiers around and they felt assured that there
wouldn’t be any problem.”
“But to our surprise, there
were hoodlums there too and before our people could think of what to do, the
hoodlums descended on them and began to use different weapons on them, right in
the presence of the policeman who accompanied our surveyor to the site.
“A member of the family who
escaped death by the whiskers, Alhaji Monsuru Akande, said ‘despite the fact
that I told them that I had come to buy land there, they kept attacking me with
charms and machetes’.
“There were over 50
hoodlums, soldiers and policemen around, who watched them unleash mayhem on us.
“We went there in two
vehicles and were expecting policemen whom we had earlier written letter to, to
join us when the hoodlums approached our vehicles and ordered us to come down.
“I told the driver to wind
up all the glasses in the vehicle but they showed us guns which were carefully
tucked under their shirts. Others came out from where they were hiding and
there was nothing we could do.
“I told the driver to
escape but they caught up with us and descended on us. We ran into different
directions but they still caught up with us.”
•
Police delay
“To my surprise, the same
policemen who were watching us from a distance still came to pick those of us
who were injured, to Isheri Oshun police station, instead of taking us to the
hospital. Policemen from Alagbon came to pick us from Isheri Oshun, to their
command.
“It was when they saw the
degree of injuries on Daniel and Debo, that they allowed them to be taken to
the hospital. But first, they took them to FESTAC police station for medical
report before they were taken to the hospital.
“Unfortunately, Debo died
later that day while Daniel died on Saturday”.
•
Call on IGP
Determined to get justice
for those killed, Counsel to the Kuje Amuwo family, Bayo Omoniyi in a petition
to the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Mohammed, dated March 19, 2020
demanded an investigation to be carried out to know why there was no response
from the Police in spite of previous report on the attack.
Part of the letter read:
“Recall that we had recently cried out over the menace of armed bandit attacks,
which had become a recurring decimal in the area and sought the deployment of
armed personnel to ensure safety of lives and property in the area in respect
of which your office has graciously approved the deployment of mobile policemen
to secure the area”.
Some alleged principal
actors in the attack were mentioned in the letter, with a call to the IGP to
investigate their culpability.
We are not responsible
But a member of the Fagbile clan who spoke to Crime Guard on the condition of
anonymity, said his party did not have a hand in the attack.
Though he admitted there
was supposed to be a meeting between both parties that day, he maintained that
“we were preparing to come when we heard that some hoodlums were attacking some
persons there. Perhaps we were their targets”.
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• Police arrest two
Meanwhile, Lagos State
Police Command said it had begun investigation into the attack with a view to
bringing the perpetrators to book.
Already, two persons,
according to the command spokesman, DSP Elkana Bala, had been arrested in
connection with the attack.
He said, “There was an
attack on some people but the police at FESTAC division was only contacted when
there was an issue and they quickly deployed officers to the scene.
“Two injured persons were
rescued and were rushed to the hospital by the police. One of them died that
day and the other died later. Two persons have been arrested in connection with
the attack and investigations are ongoing.
Two persons, whose names
the police in Lagos would not disclose yet, are being detained at the Homicide
section of the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department
(SCIID), Yaba, over the murder of two persons in a land dispute between two
families in Amuwo-Odofin and Isheri Oshun communities in the state. The slain
men, Oluwoyo Debo and Daniel Chibuzor, were hacked to death penultimate Friday
by some thugs allegedly contracted by some unknown persons during a peace
meeting said to have been called to settle the dispute. It was gathered that
five other persons sustained injuries during the meeting. SCIID detectives were
understood to have begun a manhunt for other fleeing members of the gang of
hoodlums that invaded the venue of the meeting.
The Lagos State Police
Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, confirmed the incident and the death of
the two persons. Elkana said policemen at the FESTAC Town Division responded to
a distress call that hoodlums were invading the venue of a peace meeting. “The
Division quickly deployed officers to the scene. The officers rescued two
injured persons, who they rushed to the hospital. One of them died that day and
the other died later. “Two persons have been arrested in connection with the
attack and investigations are ongoing,” he said.
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