Ogun Police arrests notorious land grabber with arms, ammunition

*Leave Ogun State or stop land grabbing, violence – Land grabbers warned

Ogun State Police Command may have found a scapegoat in an arrested land grabber with whom it will in days time test in court the anti-land grabbing, kidnapping and other criminals’ law assented to, by the Ibikunle Amosun administration, towards the end of last year.

This is coming on the heels of a disclosure by the Ogun Sate Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Sunday that one Shakirudeen Shittu, a notorious land grabber terrorising Ogijo in the Ogun/Lagos boundary area of Ikorodu, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command.

Oyeyemi in the statement, copy of which was sent to The DEFENDER, said, “The men of Ogun State Police Command has arrested one Shakirudeen Shittu, a notorious land grabber terrorising ogijo and its environs. The suspect was arrested at Eyinogbe Isale area of Ogijo while the anti-robbery team of the division led by the DPO SP Tijani Muhammad was on routine patrol of the area. He was said to be living at Ipinyewa Phase II in Lagos State.

“Information revealed

that he has been involved in series of land grabbing violence which has resulted into loss of life and wanton destruction of properties.  Recovered from him are: two pump action guns, three locally made single barrel guns, one short locally made double barrel gun, seventy five live cartridges, assorted charms and the sum of N87,600.”  The command spokesman said.

Abimbola Oyeyemi, a promising police officer who succeeded SP Muyiwa Adejobi, fondly appreciated as “mother-tongue” officer for mostly addressing Ogun State people in Yoruba in public places, informed through the statement that the “Commissioner of police CP Ahmed Iliyasu has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to FSARS for discrete investigation with the view of tracking down other members of his group.

“The CP therefore warned land grabbers to either leave the state or desist from their violent act because the command will deal decisively with anybody caught causing or intending to cause any form of violence in the state,” Oyeyemi said.