ver 150 Ikorodu residents seeking accommodation at Surulere and Coker
areas of Lagos State have been allegedly defrauded by a property
developer identified as Kabiru Adeyemi , The Nation reports
The residents, claimed that the total amount paid the said Adeyemi
amounted to about N50million, also said they resorted to leaving Ikorodu
following the spate of kidnappings and killings by the now infamous
Badoo cult group.
Further investigations revealed that the victims, comprising about
100 families, had paid the developer for alternative accommodations at
Iponri, Aguda, Coker and Orile.
Most of the victims including widows, it was gathered, were squatting
with relatives in Lagos after abandoning their homes at Ikorodu.
Adeyemi alledgedly charged some of the victims N240,000 per year for a
room and parlour apartment, but when they went to take possession of
their respective apartments, they discovered people were already in
them.
Exasperated by the development, some of the victims were said to have
filed a complaint at the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence
Department (FCIID), Alagbon, which led to Adeyemi’s arrest.
The victim’s were said to have protested to the International Centre
for Human Rights, Non Violence and Safety (ICHR) office, Alaka Estate,
Iponri, lamenting that they were stranded.
A victim, Linus Ejiofor said he fled Ikorodu in May and has been squatting with a relative.
He said he paid N200,000 for a self-contained and promised to balance
N150,000 when he got the key, but another person had occupied.
Ejiofor also lamented that he introduced a lot of people from Ikorodu to the developer, not knowing it was a scam.
Narrating her ordeal, one Mrs. Johnson said:
“I fled my house in
Ikorodu following incessant attacks from Badoo. I contacted an agent to
help me get a place and he took me to a house undergoing renovation at
Mashalasi Street, Iponri. I saw a woman, Mrs Fumilayo and a man called
JJ.“Mrs. Fumilayo told me that she and her husband were the developers
renovating the house. My agent and I inquired about a mini flat and she
said it was N250 for one year. She told me to make payment into her bank
account which I did. I brought the teller to her and was issued a
receipt.
