The Residents of Aleke community have cried out following the incessant attacks they have been experiencing since 2nd of January 2025 till this moment.
The attacks, according to them, have made several residents flee their homes and ignore their farms due to the fear of being killed for their properties.
In a save our soul petition written to the Inspector General of Police dated 9th of January 2025, prominent families in the community mentioned that a popular landgrabber, Abubakar Sulaiman Miyaki is responsible for the attacks since the beginning of the new year. It was mentioned that the landgrabber led his team members including Olamide Ganiu (AKA Small Rainbow) who has now been arrested into the community to wreck havoc and take over their landed properties.
“According to our Clients, on Thursday 2nd of January, 2025 our Clients and the other villagers were in their houses at Aleke village reveling in the euphoria of the new year celebration when around 6pm the aforementioned persons accompanied by some fierce looking cultists, bandits, thugs and hoodlums riding in several motorcycles, cars and other vehicles, and armed with guns, cutlasses, and other dangerous weapons, accompanied by some armed men in Mobile Police uniform and led by (1) ABUBAKAR SULAIMON MIYAKI and (2) OLUMIDE GANIU (A.K.A. SMALL RAINBOW) stormed and raided our Clients said village, and in the process destroyed several properties belonging to our Clients at the said village, without any regard for law and order.”
“That the aforementioned assailants, and their said armed men, cultists, bandits, thugs and hoodlums upon coming unto our Clients said village, and sighting our Clients and the other dwellers of the village, started shooting their guns sporadically, brandishing their sophisticated guns, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons, attacking our Clients and other dwellers of the village with their guns, cutlasses and other lethal weapons, ransacking and plundering the entire village in the process.”, the petition reads in part.
In the petition, it was noted that the case has been reported to the police but due to logistic reasons, nothing significant has been done to apprehend the assailants.
“That our Clients caused the criminal and atrocious activities of the aforementioned assailants and their said armed men, cultists, bandits, thugs and hoodlums to be reported to the police in numerous police formations in Lagos State but all the efforts of the Police to apprehend and bring the aforementioned assailants and their said armed men to book have been unsuccessful for (according to the police) logistic reasons.
“That the aforementioned assailants and the said armed men in Mobile Police uniform have become notorious for the perpetration of several atrocious, nefarious and violent activities in and around Ikorodu, Lagos State in recent time, and have stationed themselves at our Clients said village where they have continued to perpetrate their unlawful and illicit activities at the expense of our Clients.”
Furthermore, while speaking in an interview, Prince Jimoh Yinusa of the Onofaye Family called on the government to assist them in Aleke Village because the assailants are still very much around to kill anyone that dares question them.
“For some time, these people invaded our community and said they are working for Akeja people in Imota. The reason for coming to Aleke we don’t know. The people can’t live in their homes again, we call on the government to assist us in Aleke. They want to take over our landed properties and that’s why they have been disturbing us and trying to kill anyone they came across.”
Likewise, Gbenga Onalesi confirmed that no one can go to their farms in Aleke village in order to avoid being killed.
“On 2nd Janaury, Miyaki and his gang came with his team to invade our community and since then, none of us can go to the farm or come to the village because they have started shooting guns and carrying different arms.”
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