Three policemen arrested for land grabbing, impersonation

Juliana Francis

Operatives at the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) have arrested three policemen from Mowe Divisional Police Station for allegedly aiding the forceful possession of a large parcel of land at Orimerunmu Village at the Mowe area of the state. 

The arrest of the policemen, one of who was simply identified as Elijah came after policemen from the Federal Anti-Robbery Squad had vacated Orimerunmu Village, following claims that the two families in dispute have settled out of court.
The SFU operatives have also begun investigations into the forceful breaking into of a company by armed policemen and some people, suspected to be land speculators. 

One of the arrested policemen may also be in a serious trouble as he was said to be clad in army camouflage, when the SFU operatives invaded Orimerunmu village 

It was however gathered that the arrested policemen escaped from the SFU operatives on the way to the Onikan headquarters of Zone 2 police command.

The two families, who were earlier engaged in the battle of Orimerunmu village, Bada and Amusan  , accused the police at Mowe Police station of dabbling into land issues, despite repeated warnings from the Inspector General of Police.

The Amusan  Family had earlier approached an Abeokuta High Court of Justice  calling for a declaration that they are entitled to an exclusive possession of the cocoa farmland , lying being and situate at Orimerimu Village  via Mowe in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State

The Family also prayed the court to declare that the Bada family have no genuine claim on the land in dispute and sought perpetual injunction restraining the Bada Family, whether by themselves, their agents, privies   from trespassing on the disputed land.

The two warring families however settled and in their terms of settlement agreed to share the land into two equal parts “in the interest of justice and peaceful coexistence.”

It was gathered that the villagers and the two warring families had settled down, when policemen led some land speculators into the village and forcefully took over a large portion of the land, with the land speculators, claiming ownership of the land, despite the court settlement by the two warring families.

It however took the intervention of the operatives of the Special Fraud Unit, before the policemen vacated the village, while investigations have commenced on the roles of the policemen in the land crisis.