A civil rights group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, asked the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to order the immediate release of a Lagos-based businessman, Saheed Abdullahi Mosadoluwa.
The group, through its national coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, condemned the arbitrary arrest and illegal detention of Mosadoluwa, the Chief Executive Officer of Harmony Gardens and Estate Development Ltd.
It said the businessman has been in custody since January 21, at a police detention facility.
Part of the statement reads: “The pre-action notice accuses Oba Sikiru Adetona, Oba Kamarudeen Animashaun, and the Eyin-Osa Resettlement Committee of criminal conversion and reselling 94 hectares of land to various entities while they are presenting the owner, who genuinely acquired from the Eyin Osa statutory owners, as a land grabber.
“The company asserts its legal right to the land, emphasising that the purchased land holds a Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) – No: 33/33/2022. The pre-action notice accuses the defendants of conspiring with the police hierarchy to forcefully take over the land and detain the company director under the guise of an ongoing investigation. All the cases are already investigated.”
