Crisis is looming over the sales of about five acres of land at Owode area of Ede in Ede North Local Government Area of Osun State to two different organizations. The organisations are: Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital (Staff) Co-operative, Investment & Credit Society (CIS) and Abayol Property & Estate Management Limited.
To this development, the hopes and quest of members of LAUTECH CIS to build houses on the controversial parcels of land at Owode off Gbongan Road, Ede may have to be delayed. This is because the acres of land that the society claims to have bought in 2005 has equally been sold to Abayol Property & Estate Management by the traditional titled owner of the land, Folarin Royal Family of Ede in 2012.
Spokesman for the LAUTECH CIS, Adejuwon Gbadegesin claimed that the society bought the land for its members in 2005 from Surveyor Olaolu Babalola who claims to have bought it earlier from the titled-owner family, Daudu Folarin Family of Ede in 2001. This claim is backed with sales of land agreement prepared, signed and stamped by Shola Oyedele and Co Legal Practitioners, Osogbo on 25th April, 2005 which copy was made available to our correspondent in Osogbo.
However, contrary to the claims of LAUTECH CIS, the cash receipt from Folarin Royal Family, Ede showed that the same parcel of lands, this time measured as four acres instead of five acres claimed by LAUTECH CIS, has been sold to Abayol Property & Estate Management at N2million in 2012. The receipt which was dated 5th April, 2012 was also backed up with land sales agreement prepared, stamped and signed by S. Kayode Olowolagba Esq. of Osogbo. This agreement indicated that Pa Raji Oyedepo signed as vendor with two witnesses while the purchasing company also signed with two witnesses. The documents of the contending parties thus continued to raise some puzzles.
LAUTECH CIS accused a popular figure in the area of bringing a bulldozer to clear the lands in the course of which it claims that two of its members buildings under construction and survey beacons –all valued at about N10million were destroyed.
The representative of Abayol Limited on the other hand denied their claims saying that the bulldozer did not destroy any property. He claimed that the only structure under construction started after the company has cleared the lands while the blocks brought into the place are intact.
The LAUTECH CIS spokesman claimed that their investigation revealed that Surveyor Babalola was called by the landowner’s new committee in 2009 to pay N100,000 on each acre of land which he refused because he has sold the land to them. Abayol on the other hand claimed that investigation showed that it was a member of the titled-owner family that allegedly connived and transferred the land to the Surveyor without the knowledge of the committee put in place for that purpose.
He added that this is why the Surveyor or the LAUTECH CIS does not have any titled-owner family receipt to back the society claims.
Investigations by our correspondent revealed that efforts to find lasting solution to the dispute by the state Commissioner of Police, Mrs Dorothy Gimba, state Director of State Security Service, and Public Complaints Commission have all proved abortive as all parties refused to shift ground on the matter. In essence, it seems the law court would be the final arbiter on the matter.
This is in view of the fact that LAUTECH CIS are insisting that Abayol should vacate the land for them while Abayol is laying claims to genuine purchase from rightful titled-owner of the land and is in possession of all the necessary legal documents on the controversial land.
Source: Gazelle News
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