3 arrested for selling N30m land with forged deceased person signature

DETECTIVES from the General Investigations Department of the Force Criminal Investigations Department, Alagbon, Lagos State, have arrested three people for allegedly forging the signatures of two dead people to sell their family land in the Onigbongbo area of Ogun State.

The arrested persons reportedly forged the signatures of the late Muyibi Bisiriyu and late Kehinde Bakare and two other persons to sell a large portion of land.

The arrested suspects were as at Monday evening still being detained at the Alagbon Lagos office of the Force Criminal Investigations Department.

The police have also begun investigations into the involvement of two land agents, Shamsideen Sule and Owolabi  Sule, who reportedly sold the land on behalf  of the arrested persons.

The arrested persons were identified as Kola Batunde, Kabiru Ogunseye and Taiye Folarin, while efforts are on to arrest other members of the gang.

It was gathered that the three persons were arrested, after some members of the Aluketefogunjo family petitioned the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigations Department on the alleged forgery.

The members of the family also alleged that the arrested persons and their agents had not only viciously injured them in the past but also threatened to kill them.

It was gathered that the Aluketefogunjo and the accused persons had jointly instituted a suit over a landed property under the Baala Banjoko family and won the case in their favour

The accused persons reportedly engaged the services of Shamsideen Sule and Owolabi Sule to help them sell the land without proper consultation with the other members of the family

The family said “that the agents in collaboration with the other suspects mentioned above imported armed thugs into the land, who were stationed in the land with specific instructions to prevent us from entering the land and they have remained on the land.

The family also said “there was a sale of a part of the land to one Bankole Yaya, where a receipt in the name of the family was issued on 25/5/2014, wherein the name of Kehinde Bakare that died as far back as 1995, but yet resurrected from his grave to thumbprint the receipt.”

“They also fraudulently sold land to one Miss Tijani Kafayat Adenike and issued our family receipt dated 17/02/2015, wherein they impersonated Adebola Oloyede and forged his signature and also included the name of Muyibi Bisiriyu, who died on 13/06/2013 and claimed he also signed by forging his signature .

The accused persons also reportedly forged the signature of a certain Adebola Oloyede and Bisi Salami to sign a Term of Settlement in a suit no HCT/32/2009.

“We appeal to the authorities to immediately invite them and instruct them to remove their gun throttling thugs from the land and act in violation of section 80 of the Criminal Code and also their investigations and prosecution for impersonation contrary to section 107 (3) of the criminal code, forgery, obtaining money under false pretence.” the family pleaded.