Lawyer writes police over attempt to grab Apostolic Faith Church land in Ondo
By Julius Alabi, Akure
An Akure-based lawyer, John Olowookere is seeking the intervention of the state police command to forestall a planned move of converting a parcel of land belonging to the Apostolic Faith Church for personal use by land grabbers.
The parcel of land, at the Alagbaka GRA extension, has been earmarked for a secondary school project by the church.
In a letter by Barrister John Olowookere, the land was purchased sometime in 2013 and the church had already commenced construction work with the building foundation already laid.
He explained that one of the family members that sold the land to the church is now using armed thugs to reallocate the same property to new buyers.
According to him, the family member in question has gone further to remove some building materials, mainly iron rods brought to the site for the school building project by the church.
He appealed to security agents in the state to wade into the matter to save the church from losing the property and prevail on the family member from further trespassing.
“To the consternation and chagrin of our client, while the case is still pending before the court, and the parties are admonished to maintain status quo ante, the suspect and his organised armed thugs stealthily and secretly went to the site to steal all the 18mm iron rods used by our Client for the foundation of some classroom at the site.
“And all attempt made by the members of our Client to stop the actions of the suspect was met with naked violence as the suspect and his organised armed thugs attempted to kidnap, maim, and murder our Client’s members in the process and they escaped death by whisker. The suspect is still selling our Client’s land to unsuspecting public members, who are presently carrying out massive development on the land, even when the court has ordered to the contrary.
He therefore appealed to the police authority to intervene by taking immediate actions on the matter to prevent avoidable violence and the breakdown of peace before it is too late as we all know that no individual can monopolise violence.
