LAND SNATCHERS WOULD BE TREATED LIKE ARMED ROBBERS, ACCORDING TO OGUN POLICE

The Ogun State Police Command has warned to treat landgrabbers who terrorize the state as armed robbers and murders.

According to the command's Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, landgrabbers operate similarly to armed robbers.

According to the command's Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, landgrabbers operate similarly to armed robbers.

Oyeyemi, speaking on a radio station in Abeokuta, lamented the surge of criminality perpetrated by some celebrated landowners who pay goons to infiltrate Ogun towns armed with guns.

He said: "Those people you call land grabbers are armed robbers. They have guns and all forms of dangerous weapons. They may claim they have a court judgment; they will now gather thugs in a vehicle with guns and other weapons. They will send some people out of their communities and those villagers will never be allowed to return. They will slaughter people's goats and chickens to eat. Are they not armed robbers?"

He issued a harsh warning, stating, "If they are caught, the Ogun State anti-land-grabbing law will be used to prosecute them." If they kill someone, they will be charged with murder. If they steal something that belongs to someone else, we'll charge them with armed robbery. They should be warned."