Land Dispute: Activist Accuses Osun Monarch of Threat to Life, Tresspass, Writes Police

By Abdurafiu Agboola, Osogbo

A rights activist and Executive Chairman, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), Comrade Adeniyi Sulaiman has dragged the Alawo of Awo, Oba Musa Olatunbosun-Adebayo, in Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun State, to Osun State police command for alleged trespass into their family land and threat to the lives of the family members.

CityMirrorNews learnt that the police has begun investigation into the matter to forestall break down of law and order in the community.

Sulaimon accused Oba Adebayo of sending thugs to invade his farmland located at “Egboo” area of the town.

He claimed in a petition dated December 19, 2016  that Oba Adebayo physically attacked his brother, Abubarkar Adeniyi and later sent message to the elders of the Abubakar‘s family, including, Messer AbdulAzee Adesola, Dauda Yusuf (Baba Wale) and Alhaji Abdulkareem.

A copy of the petition titled “The Petition against Oba Musa Olatunbosun Adebayo, the Alawo of Awoland, for threat of lives, stealing, willful and malicious damages” and signed by Sulaiman, was made available to CityMirrorNews on Monday January 9, 2017.

Sulaiman urged the Police to conduct unbiased investigation into the matter so as to unravel the truth of the whole scenario, alleging that Oba Olatunbosun of notorious for encroaching the farmland of the members of the community with impunity for more than two decades.

The Petition reads in part; “In November 2015, Oba Musa Olatunbosun Adebayo sent troops of hoodlums/thugs to the farmland of Adeniyi Alimi Abubakar’s late father, – i.e. Prince Adeniyi Alimi
Akanfe, which the petitioner/complainants informed the Awo Division of the Nigeria Police Force under the  D.P.O., Supol Niyi Lawal, a Deputy Superintended of Police(DSP) with phone number -08123823751, where the  Police boss effected the arrest of one Mr. Ibraheem Mudazhiru, Mrs. Folakemi Akintola, Mr. Ayantoye Mose (a.ka. Tonado) and one woman called Iya-Elemu Iragberi.

“Again, in October 2016, the same Oba Musa Olatunbosun Adebayo still sent another troops of criminal Trespassers to these aforementioned complainants late father’s /husband farmlands in aforementioned place where the said criminals stole a lot of farm crops. When the meeting were held between the complainant’s family and Oba Musa Adebayo at the instance of Alawo-in-Council, where Oba Adebayo thrown the caution into the wind by starting another round of vitriolic attack and planning to unleash terror attack on Mr. Adeniyi Alimi Abubakar, as Vice-Chairman, Osun State Council of Obas before the sympathizers sneaked “Abubakar “ out of the palace through back door .But all the conversation of the said meeting had been well recorded as the authentic evidence to prove the matter  beyond reasonable doubt in any competent jurisdiction”.

Sulaimon, therefore, urged the police authority to wade into the matter in accordance with the Section 214 of the amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, saying that law is not a respecter of any individual and a stitch in time saves nine.