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A rights group, the Human Rights Monitoring Agenda (HURMA) has condemned the recent attack on a state officer from Lagos State Special Task Force on Land Grabbing (LSSTFLG) in Epe area of Lagos State and request urgent investigation and prosecution of the culprits.
The protest was communicated in a letter signed by the Executive Director of HURMA, Comrade Buna Olaitan Isiak titled: “Alleged Attack on Harmless Officer of LSSTFLG in Epe – Call for Urgent investigation and Action By Both Local and State Authorities”.
The letter sent to both local and state offices, including Lagos State Ministry of Justice called on the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in the state to make good its threats and demonstrate the might to prosecute anyone found assaulting or attacking any government officials in the course of their lawful duties to stem the tide of impunity against state officials.
The letter reads: “We wish to hereby officially express our concerns to the growing insecurity in Otara area of the Igbooye community, Eredo LCDA in Epe, Lagos State as well as the threat to the peace of residents by some hoodlums allegedly attached to the OTTO’s family.
“We condemn in strong term the recent attack on a harmless dispatch staff of Lagos State Special Task Force on Land Grabbers (LSSTFLG), call for urgent investigation and necessary action to ensure justice and restoration of peace and security to the community.
“According to report sent to our Central Operational Office from our unit office in Epe, the office of the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State in response to petitions written by Adesada Oganjugbe family and Onayemi family of Igbooye, acted through the office of Lagos State Special Taskforce on Land Grabbers by sending invitations for peace/ fact finding meeting to petitioners, the Heads of families of Adesada Oganjugbe and Onayemi and the respondents, Mr. Abdul Rasaq Rafiu aka OTO’s family, Mr. Jogunomi and Mr. Abiodun Adebayo, Chogon Property Ltd and Quickspace property & Investment, the alleged encroachers as well as to paste letters on properties on the disputed OTARA LAND in Igbooye, Eredo LCDA, Epe Division, Lagos State.
“The state dispatch staff, Mr. Oluwaseyi Fadare who was there on the morning of Wednesday, November 20, 2024 to paste letters tagged OCCUPIERS on the properties at OTARA LAND was molested, ridiculed, attacked and assaulted by some unknown boys stationed on the land by ABDULRASAQ RAFIU’s family.
“In the event, some of the letters to be served by the state staff were collected by these thugs who threatened to use everything they have including dangerous weapons and charms on the harmless state representative and some members of the petitioners who were there as pointers.
“Mr. Oluwaseyi Fadare from the office of Lagos State Special Task Force on Land Grabbers (LSSTFLG) later escaped from their grips and left the scene of the incident.
“It is important for the general community and authorities to rise and ensure an end to this implicating attitude before the general community begins to face the consequences.”
The human rights group called for an urgent investigation and subsequent prosecution of the perpetrators to serve as deterrent to others who might later want to also attack law enforcement officers/state workers in the course of performing their official duties.
