In set above is a renowned industrialist and chairman of Doyin Investment Group of Companies Nigeria Limited, Prince Samuel Adedoyin.
By Ibeawuchi Ambrose Uwaleke (Advocatenewsng.com) 09064186047.
A property developer, Olasheni Johnson Adeyinka, (A.K.A. Abu Abel) and his company, Obimzy Property & Development Limited have denied collecting the sum of N447million fraudulently from Doyin Investment Group of Companies Limited in alleged shady land deals somewhere in Eti Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State.
In a publication made in a national newspaper to put the records straight by the solicitors of the complainants, W.K. Shittu SAN, & Co and signed by the principal partner, Dr. Wahab Shittu SAN, Mr. Adeyinka refuted the claims making the rounds that he is a fraudster involved in land frauds in which Doyin Investment Group of Companies was defrauded to the tune of N447 million for which he (Adeyinka) was arrested by the Police as a result.
The publication titled: “Olasheni Johnson Adeyinka (A.K.A. Abu Abel) not a fraudster, not involved in any land fraud and never defrauded Doyin Investment Group of Companies or any other person(s)”, stated in paragraph one that the attention of the complainant has been drawn to persistent orchestrated, unwarranted and libelous online/social media publications against him wrongly insinuating that he ‘has been arrested for an alleged N447 million land fraud allegedly perpetrated against Doyin Investment Group of Companies’.
The solicitors said that their client and his company, Obimzy Property and Development Limited are the rightful owners of the land measuring 69922.732 square meters delineated in survey plan No: ANO/4182/024/LA drawn by Akinsanya Jimoh (Registered Surveyor), lying, situate and being at Augustina Orji Street, within Ojomu Chieftaincy Family Land, Oke Arin Village, Maiyegun, Eti-Osa, Lagos State, covered by Governor’s Consent with case file No:LU/GC/127834 obtained in favour of Mr. Adeyinka and his company.
They further claimed that their client, Adeyinka and his company rightfully purchased the said land and perfected his Deed of Assignment which was signed by lawful agents acting on behalf of the Ojomu Chieftaincy Family for which a deed of assignment was duly executed in respect of the said land lying at along at Augustina Orji Street, within Ojomu Chieftaincy Family Land, Oke Arin Village, Mayegun, Eti Osa Local Government, Lagos State.
Again, the Chambers of W. K. Shittu SAN, deposed that upon fulfilling the outright consideration, its client and his company proceeded to process the Governor’s Consent at the Land Registry, Lagos State to register the Deed of Assignment thereby perfecting their Title to the said parcel of land to wit: Governor’s Consent.
It was also reported that years after the purchase of the said land, their client and his company obtained the Governor’s Consent over the said property along Agustina Orji Street, Ojomu Chieftaincy Family Land, Oke Arin Village, Mayegun, Eti Osa Local Government Area, Lagos State.
From the time their client and his company purchased the parcel of land in 2015, the solicitors continued their claim, they have been in full control and management of the property to the exclusion of all others.
The solicitors further deposed to the following claims:
. That our client and his company have exercised considerable acts of possession and ownership over the said parcel of land such as further alienation of part of the said piece of land without any encumbrances or objection from the Lagos State Government and other persons.
. That only until very recently while carrying out construction activities on the said parcel of land rightfully acquired and belonging to our client and his company, certain individuals using the name of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State and hiding under the auspices and claiming they have the Consent of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit (Task Force) without just cause or court order trespassed into the land and with brutal force prevented our client’s workers working on the land from having further access to the land and directing that our client and his company report to their offices situated at the Lagos State Police Command with the necessary document to ascertain ownership over the said land.
. Our client’s dealings with Doyin Investment Group of Companies on the subject property.
. Our client’s dealings with Doyin Investment Group of Companies on the land was on the strength of lawful proprietary interest and valid titles from the Lagos State Government. Our client being a property developer on the strength of this valid title and possession of the land in dispute including massive drillings at the site by our client sold plots 1, 4, and 10 out of the 12 plots owned by our client to Doyin Investment Group of Companies. The sale was not borne out of misrepresentation of facts, but out of being rightful owners “of all that land measuring 69922.732 square meters delineated in Survey Plan No: ANO/4182/024/2021/LA drawn by Akinsanya Jimoh (Registered Surveyor), lying, situate and being at Augustina Orji Street, within Ojomu Chieftaincy Family Land, Oke Arin Village, Maiyegun, Eti-Osa, Lagos State covered by Governor’s Consent with case file No: LU/GC/127834.”
. That our client not only rightly purchased the said land and perfected his Deed of Assignment but also our client duly processed and obtained the Governor’s Consent at the Lagos State Land Registry, Ikeja. Since the purchase in 2015, our client took lawful possession of same. It was based on the above facts that our client entered into the transaction with Doyin Investment Group of Companies on the subject land. Therefore, at all material times relevant to the transaction, there was no intention to defraud Doyin Investment Group of Companies neither was there a case of obtaining any sum from Doyin Investment Group of Companies under false pretences.
. In good faith our client wishes to confirm the facts stated hereunder:
*That sometime in 2023, our client actually sold plots 1, 4 and 10 along Augustina Orji Street, within Ojomu Chieftaincy Family Land, Oke Arin Village, Maiyegun, Eti Osa Local Government Area, Lagos State, measuring approximately 1,800.311sqm for a total consideration of N447,000,000.00 (Four Hundred and Forty-Seven million naira). This transaction was purely civil with all documentations executed by the parties and based on valid titles obtained from the Lagos State Government as herein before described. There was no question of any fraudulent dealings on the property by our client and neither was the said sum of N447,000,000.00 obtained from Doyin Investment Group of Companies under any false pretences as being erroneously orchestrated to discredit and blackmail our client.
* That Doyin Investment Group of Companies Nigeria Limited had commenced a civil suit against our client on the subject matter in the high court of Lagos in suit No:7766GCM/2024 between Doyin Investment Nig. Ltd (Claimant) and Olasheni Johnson Adeyinka, ‘our client’.
* Parties have filed and exchanged pleadings in the proceedings before the Lagos State High Court.
* Inpite of the proceedings on the subject initiated by Doyin Investment Nigeria Limited at Lagos State High Court as indicated above, Doyin Investment Nig Ltd has also sought to criminalize the matter by lodging a petition with the Assistant Inspector General of Police essentially on the same facts. This is the petition that the subject matter of the current orchestrated blackmail against our client.
* Notwithstanding the injustice being meted on our client in the circumstances and in spite of the ongoing proceedings on the subject matter at the Lagos State High Court, our client in good faith has offered to refund the total sum of N447 million installmentally to Doyin Investment Group of Companies.
* In total the sum of N379,000,000.00 (Three Hundred and seventy-nine million naira) has so far been refunded voluntarily to Doyin Investment Group of Companies with an undertaking by our client to complete the payment of the remaining N68,000,000.00 in a matter of weeks.
Having arrived at this conclusion, the learned Silk, Dr. Shittu, on behalf of his team said his client has therefore served a notice to all bloggers on social media platforms orchestrating the story of blackmail against him, Mr. Adeyinka and his company, Obimzy Property and Development Limited, to desist forthwith from orchestrating defamation of the property developer through online platforms and other virtual spaces, adding that failure to adhere to this advice, he has a further instruction from his client to commence legal proceedings against any infractions of this notice.
