Ogun estate residents tackle developers, allege harassment

<p>Some landlords of City of David Estate, an estate developed by Adron Homes in the Shimawa area of Ogun State have complained about alleged harassment by security guards engaged by the estate developers.</p>, <p>PUNCH Metro gathered that on Wednesday, one of the residents, Henry Adeyemi, was in a scuffle with some of the security guards after he reportedly refused his trunk to be checked when he was driving into the estate.</p>, <p>A video of the incident obtained by our correspondent from one of the landlords showed Adeyemi being forced into a security van by security officials who reportedly invited policemen from the Shimawa Division to pick him up.</p>, <p>A landlord, who introduced herself as the Assistant Secretary of the Residents Association in the estate, Efosa Irhabor, said on Thursday that the residents had been having lingering issues with the developers of the estate over levies and other maintenance.</p>, <p>Irhabor said, “The recent one is the security issues. They disengaged the previous security men and engaged new ones. We have our security men that do night patrols. The estate security men do man the main gate to check those that come to work in the estate. He (the company’s GMD) changed them.</p>, <p>“Yesterday (Wednesday), a resident was coming in and he was asked to be checked in. He was about to allow them to check him when one of the security men said ‘This is one of them.’ That got the man sparked.</p>, <p>“We have been adamant that they cannot impose on us, we have to synergise. But it’s like there is a kind of malice and disorientation that ‘deal with them.’ The man got angry and challenged the guard’s identity for not being well dressed and carrying a gun because he didn’t know him. He then refused to open his boot and wanted to go and open the gate by himself.</p>, <p>“The security men attacked him, beat him and he retaliated so there was a fight. Adron Homes then brought policemen. He was molested, and the policemen could not even do anything, it was the Man o War guys that were do