Nigerian Concord Newspaper
An Akure based legal practitioner has sought the intervention of the state police command in a move to convert for personal use a parcel of land which belongs to the Apostolic Faith Church.
The parcel of land, at the Alagbaka GRA extension, has been earmarked for a secondary school project by the church.
In the letter by Barrister John Olowookere, stated that the land was purchased sometimes in 2013 and that 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 possibly 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 psending before in the court, and the parties are admonished to maintain status quo ante, the suspect and his organised armed thugs stealthily and surreptitiously 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 al 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. As the matter of fact, the suspect is stil 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 breakdown of peace before it is too late as we all know that no individual can monopolise violence.