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By Divine Ugwueze
A Lagos State based real estate company, has accused the police at the Special Enquiry Bureau of the Lagos State Police Command of unlawfully destroying its property .
The company, Nigercat Nigeria Limited, noted that operatives of the SEB , who acted on the order of Oladimeji Oladosu also took away properties belonging to Nigercat Nigeria Limited .
Chairman of the company Alhaji Osuolale has therefore called on the Inspector General of Police,Olatunji Disu to order a full scale investigations into the invasion of its property by the police operatives .
The Businessman said “ The police in Lagos have turned themselves to agents of land grabbing before adequate investigation into whatever complaints that was reported to them . “
The property in question ,situated at Oduduwa Crescent ,Ikeja GRA belongs to me and there is no controversies over the ownership in any court .The police have been misled by whoever wrote any petition to them “
He narrated that “ The police had fixed a meeting for a fact finding mission for last Monday but surprisingly,policemen,who were led by Oladosu Oladimeji invaded the property ,a day before Monday and demolished his property
“By the time I got there on Monday ,they had destroyed the property ,took away my gate and erected a new gate on my property .
“I am a real estate practitioner of repute . I not only confirmed the ownership but also regularized my ownership of the property by paying the necessary fees to the Lagos State Government “
Alhaji Osuolale explained that “ What the police are claiming to be investigating is a case of leasing . The petitioner told them that somebody leased my property to them for ten years and that the ten years is not due yet .
“The former and original owner of the property told me that he was not privy to any ten years lease on his property .”
“ The petitioner had claimed in his petition that a former agent of the owner,whose power of attorney had long been revoked ,leased the property to him for ten years.”
The Businessman there appealed to the IGP to “ Urgently called the Lagos police to order” and retrain them from further trespassing on his property .
He said: “ They are turning themselves to land grabber. This is purely a civil matter and instead of advising the petitioner to do the right thing ,they resorted to destroying my property .
“After removing my gate and erecting a new one on my site ,they still took my gate away from a property ,where the ownership is not in any d dispute “
“Initially the police supervised the painting of my property by the said petitioner and later demolished my gate and erected a new one there
“They( the police) are claiming that the matter is in court but they could not answer if any of the parties in court is claiming ownership of the property .” the real estate practitioner said
“ The IGP should call these people to order. Those that they claimed are in court are not rhe owners of the property. The y have disagreement over leasing over a property that does not belong to either of them “
