Businessman petitions EFCC, IG over land deal

AN 82-year-old Ijebu-Ode businessman, Mr Ayoola Rasaki Kassim, has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), the Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim ldris, and the governor of Lagos State, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, over a landed property at Opebi, Ikeja, Lagos which was allegedly acquired fraudulently by Mr. lawyer.

Mr Kassim, according to a copy of the petition dated February 28, 2017 and made available to Sunday Tribune, claimed that he bought the property from one Mrs ibironke Samuel, daughter of Late Chief SO Shonibare, a prominent leader of the defunct Action Group from Ijebu Ode and that he paid N4 mililon in two instalments on March 10 and of April 8, 1999 respectively.

He alleged that efforts to take ownership of the property had since met a brick wall as a legal practitioner, a SAN, had built on the land and presently lives there.

Mr. Kassim explained that the Lagos High Court judgement of December 2002 which transferred the ownership of the land to Mr Yusuf was allegedly based on contact of assignment or deed of agreement which contained forged signature of the seller of the property, Mrs. Ibironke Samuel, a claim he supported with a letter from the Forensic and Crime Data Department of Nigeria Police, lkoyi dated August 17, 2015, and signed by ASP Reginald Udunze.

Mr. Kassim disclosed that all efforts made to reach Mrs. Ibironke Samuel who now lives in Abuja since the land deal gone awry had proved abortive while Mr. Olalekan Yusuf has continue to hold on to the property illegally.