Police Arrests School Proprietor, NRC official over Illegal Sell of Government Land in Osogbo

Osun State Police Command has nabbed the School Proprietor, Reverend Olatunde Timothy Oke and official of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr. Olawale Abass in Osogbo, Osun State capital over illegal sold of Government Land with fake document.

The illegal sales of the land beside railway line belonging to Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) was uncovered by the Executive Chairman of the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), Comrade Adeniyi, Alimi Sulaiman who led the team that hinted the authority of the Policemen at Dugbe Divisional Police Station, Osogbo on Monday, maintained that the matter should not be treated with levity hand so as to serve as deterrent to other who may have criminal tendency at heart.

Oke who is the Proprietor of unapproved Rocks Model Nursery and Primary School located around Ajibade street, off Olorunda Local Government Secretariat area of Osogbo and Abass(54) who is the Junior Staff of the Corporation have been making useful information to the police for further investigation to unravel the matter.

The source close to the police also revealed that the suspects had damaged the farm crops worth of sum of N180, 000.00 on the said land.

But it was gathered that the School proprietor, Oke disclosed to the Police that the land beside railway line was lease for him to construct new building of the School by the authority of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) in order to help him secure State government approval of the School.

Commenting further on the issue, Comrade Sulaiman who regarded the alleged document as fake because the said letter was written without Letter Head Paper of the Corporation which also made the Police to see the latter as fake, calling on the authority of the Corporation to investigate this mindboggling matter by querying the Head of Osun State office .

The rights activist who commended the Dugbe Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Supol Sunday Ominijo, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) for his prompt official action on the matter, described him as pride of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), stating that his group had concluded arrangement to write a strong worded Petition Letter to the appropriate authority by informing them of the development officially.

Sulaiman who is also the Chairman, Civil societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEOS), stressed that the officials of the State Ministry of the Education, should wade into this matter as part of their effort to checkmate the illegal Nursery and Primary schools across the State, alleging that Oke was planning to endanger the life of the over one hundred twenty(120) pupils by constructing a school building beside railway line.

Signed:
Comrade Alimi Sulaiman Adeniyi
(Revolutionary Alfa)
Executive Chairman, Centre For Human Rights And Social Justice (CHRSJ)

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