A property owner, Mr. Razaq Folohunsho has petitioned Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, accusing the Chairman of the state Housing Corporation, Mr. Demola Omotoso, of land grabbing.
The petitioner accused the Oyo State Housing Corporation chairman of abusing his powers to confiscate landed properties belonging to individuals under the pretext that they have been seized by the state government.
In his petition, Folohunsho informed Gov. Makinde of several petitions written against Omotoso to law enforcement agents and the state House of Assembly, detailing cases of land grabbing recorded against him.
He said, if the state housing corporation boss is not immediately called to order, the hard earned image and reputation of Gov. Makinde might be tarnished .
The petitioner accused the housing corporation chairman of using his office negatively to penetrate the unlawful acts.
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Folohunsho further alleged that since his appointment as the Chairman of the Oyo State Housing Corporation, Omotoso, has being dropping dropping Gov. Makinde’s name in taking over peoples’ landed property to build shopping complexes.
“He is fond of re-allocating peoples’ personal lands to some investors he brought with building plans to construct shopping complexes on the guise that those lands belong to the Oyo state Housing Corporation.
“There is a particular land along the Ife- ibadan Expressway, opposite Gbagi Market, a federal road setback which has been allocated by the Federal Ministry of Land to certain individuals to beautify that axis with modern landscaped container–shopping complex which was recently grabbed by Demola Omotoso.
“He went there and illegally removed all the properties that belongs to the owners (10 shipping containers) and has started building a shopping complex on the said land, claiming the governor gave him the order to do so.
“A further investigation revealed that the project is actually his personal project as the corporation has denied having any official project going on at that axis.
“The corporation sometimes ago applied to the Federal Ministry of Land for allocation of the particular land but was told it had already been allocated to certain individuals.
“He is embarking on this construction spree with the active connivance with one retired Director of Fisheries, Alhaji Asimiyu Kolawole Rasaq, who’s believed to be the sole sponsor and funding of the construction on the pretext that the project belongs to the Oyo State Government.
“This man is not fit to hold such an esteemed office and as a matter of fact, should not be part of Oyo State Government officials as he is quite a complete opposite of the policies of Gov. Seyi Makinde,” said Folohunsho in his petition.
