Ibekimi Oriamaja Reports.
Residents of the Iba-Oloja Community in Lagos State’s Ibeju-Lekki Local Council Development Area pleaded with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu yesterday to protect them from notorious land grabbers who have made life difficult for them in the community.
Residents gathered in large numbers to express their outrage at the alleged invasion of the town by suspected thugs aided by mobile police officers attached to a prominent property manager.
“We are appealing to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to save us from these criminals,” said Chief Hasan Lawal, a community leader, of the crisis engulfing Iba-Oloja town. Our children are unable to attend school due to the community crisis. Farmers have been unable to return to their farms, and market women have remained indoors for fear of being attacked by land grabbers, who regularly disrupt the town’s peace.”
Lawal also stated that two residents of the town are still being treated at Akodo General Hospital for gunshot wounds sustained during the attack last week.
“Governor Sanwo-Olu should assist us in getting rid of these land grabbers,” the community leader said. Our neighborhood has been turned into a war zone, and we can’t sleep with our eyes closed.
“We won’t be able to go to the market.” We have been unable to live normal lives since the crisis began, and the police, who should be preventing the breakdown of law and order, are turning a blind eye by arresting innocent indigenes and law-abiding residents of the town.”
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