Apostolic Faith Church In Ondo Sends SOS To Police Over Landed Property

By Ayodele Oni

An Akure-based legal practitioner has sought the intervention of the State Police Command in a move to stop the conversion, for personal use, a parcel of land which belongs to the Apostolic Faith Church.

The parcel of land at the Alagbaka GRA extension, has been earmarked for a Secondary School project by the Church.

In the letter, Barrister John Olowookere stated that the land was purchased sometime in 2013 and that the Church had already commenced construction work with the building foundation already laid.

He explained that one of the family members who sold the land to the Church, is now using armed thugs to possibly re-allocate the same property to new buyers.

According to him, the family member in question has gone further to remove some building materials, mainly iron rods, brought to the site for the school building project by the Church.

He appealed to security agents in the State to wade into the matter to save the church from losing the property and prevail on the family member from further trespassing.

“To the consternation and chagrin of our client, the suspect and his organized armed thugs stealthily and surreptitiously went to the site to steal iron rods used by our Client for the foundation of some classroom at the site.

“And all attempts made by the members of our Client to stop the actions of the suspect was met with naked violence as the suspect and his organized armed thugs attempted to kidnap, maim, and murder our Client’s members in the process and they escaped death by whisker.

“As a matter of fact, the suspect is still selling our Client’s land to unsuspecting public members, who are presently carrying out massive development on the land, even when the court has ordered to the contrary.

He, therefore, appealed to the police authority to intervene by taking immediate actions on the matter to prevent avoidable violence and breakdown of peace.