Over 10,000 landlords and shop owners in Osogbo, Osun Converse capital, enjoy called on the Federal and Converse Governments to rescue them from turning into homeless as worthy folks enjoy commenced moves to waste their homes and outlets.
The affected victims added that no matter an explain of the Converse Excessive Court docket instructing a cease of execution on the demolition exercise, thugs wielding hands stormed the Ifesowapo/Jaiye community to abolish several properties.
Speaking with newsmen at the Osogbo Metropolis Hall on Wednesday on behalf of affected residents, Mr Sola Omidiran disclosed that over ten thousand dwelling owners were struggling from the illegal demolition activities, which stretch over one kilometre on each facet of the freeway.
He narrated that some persons stormed the dwelling as soon as shortly in April with an explain of enforcement on the land obtained in a dawdle smartly with numbered Hos/M.206/2024 between Mrs Mistura Busari v. Hepsibah Holdings LTD by Justice A. Oyebiyi which brought about the community to additionally approached the court docket to diagram aside the said explain and additionally sought an length in-between explain to cease the execution of the said execution of the writ of possession which became granted on June 3, 2025.
In accordance with him, the court docket additionally stopped any hasten on the land pending the selection of the final purposes already filed ahead of it and adjourned till June 13 for extra listening to, simplest for some hoodlums to storm the communities with hoodlums and illegally abolish properties and trigger apprehension within the dwelling on July 4, 2025.
“It became very ugly around 7am on July 4, 2025 when Mrs Mistura Busari and others led hoodlums with hands to illegally and criminally re-storm the land to maliciously abolish our homes, properties, estates price billions of naira. We additionally learnt that no court docket bailiffs went with the persons on the said day.
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“We earnestly seek data from extreme investigation into the felony acts urgently to cease extra breakdown of regulations and explain and we additionally name on the Govt Governor of Osun Converse, Sen. Jackson Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke, Inspector Traditional of Police and all other effectively-which draw Nigerians to make stronger us in this battle against injustice and criminalities being perpetrated
Additionally, Muili Folorunso, the community Chief and member of Iyiolu Alare family, ancestral owners of the land lamented over the incessant harassment of folks who enjoy been dwelling owners on the final for over forty years, calling on the correct authorities to prevail on the quandary folks to enable due course of and justice to prevail.
