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Family members at war in Ogun over land

A leadership tussle is threatening to tear a family apart in Oshinboyede village, a community in the Ogijo local government area of Ogun State.  Members…

A leadership tussle is threatening to tear a family apart in Oshinboyede village, a community in the Ogijo local government area of Ogun State.
 Members of the family, who are descendants of Oshin from the ancestral home of Lisa in Ijebu Ode, are at loggerheads over who among them is entitled to the farmland in the community.
 Following the land tussle, some family members headed to court. The suit, No. HCS/19/2011, has been lingering at the Shagamu High Court for six years without hearing.
 Presently, three branches of the family, out of four, are jointly accusing the fourth of sabotaging the peace efforts in the community. Members of the aggrieved three branches are appealing to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, to call a retired Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) and one other to order.
The head of the Oshinboyede  decendants, Chief Ganiyu Onifela Adeniyi, said the trouble, which started like a minor disagreement in the 1960s, has “snowballed into a monster that is threatening to consume the villagers.”
He added that based on their complaint, operatives from the IGP Monitoring Unit in Abuja and the police officers at the Ogijo police station visited the village and were able to arrest eight of thugs who had guns and dangerous weapons. He said the thugs were used to scare the people away.

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