Police nab 9 suspected land grabbers in Ogun

<p>The police in Ogun State have arrested nine men who are allegedly landgrabbers at Odosegolu village along the Ijebu-Ode/Epe expressway.</p>, <p>The arrest of the suspects, DAILY POST learnt, followed valid intelligence gathered by the police that “some hoodlums were fomenting trouble at Odosegolu village with dangerous weapons.”</p>, <p>According to a statement by Omolola Odutola, Ogun State Police Command’s spokesperson, following the Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alamutu’s directives, the area commander in Ijebu-Ode, ACP Omosanyi Adeniyi, had led “a crack team of operatives of 71 Police Mobile Force, anti-cultism, anti-kidnapping, and patrol teams from divisions under Ijebu-Ode Area Command, to the troubled village and rounded up nine suspected land grabbers.”</p>, <p>Odutola identified the suspects as Akeem Rabiu, 42, Ayodele Nureni, 49, Wasiu Olamilekan, 32, Abiodun Adeoye, 40, and Samuel Abayomi, 36.</p>, <p>Others are Sesan Badejo, 35, Ademola Ajayi, 58, Babafemi Badejo, 59, and Olabayo Jimoh, 31.</p>, <p>The police spokesperson alleged that “they are the notorious elements and crooks that have consistently robbed the aforementioned community of their lands.”</p>, <p>Odutola added: “These con men have engaged in a series of illegal forcible entry into the lands of locals, who did not have the wherewithal to defend themselves.”</p>, <p>She disclosed that they were arrested with dangerous weapons, charms, and hard drugs, noting that their arrest has been a big relief to residents of the village.</p>, <p>She further said that the suspects have all confessed to engaging in “illegal land conversion, stealing of lands, as well as defrauding people of their hard-earned monies.”</p>, <p>According to her, the suspect will be charged in court after the investigation is concluded.</p>