Mr Akogun Elijah Adeogun is calling on the Inspector General of Police IGP Kayode Egbetokun to come to his rescue and investigate blackmail and murder charges levelled against him by land speculators in Osuke Ogun state .
Mr Adeogun stated that his trouble started with the land speculators after he was selected as a member of the Land committee in Living Faith Church as the land speculators linking him to the unrest in Osuke community are unhappy since he became a member of the land committee .
Mr. Adeogun who spoke during a press conference in Abuja said those linking him to the unrest in Osuke community in Ogun state which claimed the life of one Obasanjo Jinadu Saheed have resorted to blackmail and using the police to arrest him incessantly despite the fact he was not in Osuke community when the incident happened as well as the fact that he has no hand in the incident.
He said ” This issue started about three week ago after I was selected by the Living Faith Tabernacle church aka Winners Chapel Ota as a member of the church’s Land Committee . I am not from Osuke community . I am from Ilasa community. I have been to Osuke only once in my life . I don’t have land in Osuke community and I am not the Winners Chapel that owns land in the area. I was included in the Land Committee three weeks ago because they got wind of the kind of job I do. We were having a meeting of the committee where it was resolved that everyone should steer clear of all the lands belonging to the church at least for now because despite having a subsisting court injunction which was gotten on the lands, the land speculators still continued to dredge the land for commercial purposes. So, it was resolved that we should write a petition to that effect.
We were at the Police command at Elewaran Ogun state last week for the petition we wrote on the case while one Ibrahim Ibuoye also wrote his own petition. It was at the DCP’s office that we resolved through an undertaking that all parties should maintain the status quo on the land as the court ruled. Is Winners land a plot of land or half plot of land that I can encroach with the aim of selling? So, how will I go there to cause trouble?”
Speaking on the blackmail and concerted efforts to malign him using the police, Mr. Akogun said ”I was in court on Monday February 24th when the blackmail started. . One Mr. Julius Aghahowa called me when he heard there was shooting in the Osuke community and I asked him what concern that is to me and told him not to call my line again. When I returned from court in the evening, I got another call from Zone 2 police command Onikan Lagos because Winners’ Church land matter is being handled there with the IGP Monitoring Unit, so I told them that they should call Winners because I don’t have land in Osuke community and I am not at loggerheads with anyone in the community. My role in Winner’s land committee is just to advise them on what to do to resolve the land dispute they have with land speculators. After I returned from the Magistrates’ court in Ota , I found out about the news report linking me to the unrest and killing of one Obasanjo Jinadu Saheed at Osuke community . I was shocked as I was not anywhere near the Osuke community that fateful day. The matter was reported at the Elewaran police Headquarters in Ogun state and the police went to the court to investigate and they found out that I was indeed in the court when the unrest and killing took place in Osuke community. I am very sad that due to my membership as a land committee of my church, some land speculators are out to destroy my name and link me to a terrible crime like murder. I learnt that they have petitioned the Assistant Inspector General of Police AIG Zone 2 Onikan Lagos to arrest me . This is all in a bid to continue to soil my reputation and get me jailed for a crime I know nothing about . I will not hesitate to report these persons to the police authority over this blackmail and linking me to murder. I am therefore appealing to the IGP Egbetokun to save me from these desperate land speculators as I call for a thorough investigation into this matter because I am innocent’’.
