The police in Osun have arrested the General Manager of Western Sun Hotels, Ede, Mr Samuel Owolawi, over alleged attempted land grabbing, assault and malicious damage to property.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that Owolawi was taken into custody in Ede on Saturday after he allegedly led hoodlums and armed soldiers to demolish an ongoing building construction and chased away workers on a site behind the hotel.
The builder on site, Mutiu Tijani, said in a statement to the police that Owolawi’s gang also demolished the building on the orders of Kamal Ishola Yusuf, a serving Major General in Nigerian Army and Chairman of Western Sun Hotels.
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According to him, the gang also beat up the workers and threatened the men never to return to the site, claiming that the General recently bought over the property from Ede North Local Government.
“While bricklayers were working on site, to my surprise, General Manager of Western Sun Hotels, Samuel Owolawi, asked the workers to leave the site on the order of Gen. Yusuf.
“In fact, they demolished all works we have done and wasted the materials – bricks, sand, cement, we had to run for our dear lives,” the builder said in his statement at Oke Iresi Police Division, Ede.
NAN learnt that the police have also invited the incumbent chairman of Ede North local Government, Mr Adeyemi Elliot, for questioning to explain his role in “assisting” the General in the land scandal.
