Ogun Government Drags 2 Monarchs, Others To Court Over Alleged Land Grabbing

The Ogun State Government has filed transgression charges against 2 accepted rulers and different individuals successful the State implicit allegations bothering connected onshore grabbing successful antithetic parts of the State.

The affected monarchs – the Onijoko of Ijoko Ota, Oba Fatai Matanmi, and the Olu of Orile-Igbon successful Igbesa, Oba Yusuf Olasunkanmi – were accused of forceful takeover of lands, forcible entry, arsenic good arsenic unlawful merchantability of spot belonging to different morganatic owners successful 2 antithetic suits marked HCT/84R/2025 and HCT/77R/2025, respectively.

In a connection issued connected Tuesday day successful Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, the State’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Oluwasina Ogungbade, disclosed that the determination to resistance the 2 accepted rulers earlier the tribunal was portion of the affirmative committedness of the Prince Dapo Abiodun-led medication towards prosecuting onshore grabbers, “irrespective of their societal oregon accepted presumption successful the society.”

Ogungbade, successful the statement, explained that the Onijoko of Ijoko Ota, Oba Matanmi, was accused of unlawful income of spot belonging to morganatic owners, who had antecedently paid him the sum of N5 cardinal restitution “to support peace” due to the fact that the archetypal owner, 1 Madam Irokosu, who sold the onshore to him was late, but the monarch continued to harass him, thereby forcing him to study the substance to the authorities government, which consequently instituted the lawsuit against the accepted ruler.

In his ain case, the Olu of Orile-Igbon successful Igbesa country of Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the State, Oba Olasunkanmi, was accused of unlawfully appropriating onshore done intermediaries, and chasing distant morganatic occupants from their lands.

The accused monarchs were, however, scheduled to beryllium arraigned connected Thursday, September 25, 2025.

The State Government besides filed charges against Chief Lekan Agbogun and Chief Akinbowale Beckley, for allegedly selling onshore successful Mosafejo, Abeokuta, without authority.

The duo were accused of fraudulently disposing disconnected a complainant’s spot to a purchaser overseas contempt lacking ownership documents and contempt an existing gathering lasting connected the land.

AG Ogungbade stressed that portion each defendants were presumed guiltless until proven guilty, the cases showed Ogun State Government’s resoluteness to combat onshore grabbing.

“The State Government assures the nationalist that nary substance the personalities involved, wherever the facts warrant and it is successful the nationalist involvement to bash so, the State volition defy and redress each onshore grabbing actions that travel to its notice,” the AG stated.