Lagos charges two for selling properties under receivership

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The Lagos State Government has charged two men – Dr Olawunmi
Awosedo and Olamidayo Olukoga – at the Special Offences’ Court for
allegedly selling properties under the receivership of the Asset
Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON).

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mrs Titilayo Shitta-Bey
said in the charge filed on February 16 that the defendants sold no
fewer than 26 properties to which they had no lawful title.

The suspects allegedly committed the offence last December 12 at
Grant House, by Goshen Beach Estate, Lekki, Lagos.

The prosecution said they had no power to sell the properties,
not being directors of Knight Rook Ltd.

Among the properties is Block O, Plot 12A Victoria Park Estate,
Igbokushu, Lekki Penninsula, Lago, which they allegedly sold to Mr
and Mrs Nduka and Chinelo Dike.

The suspects also allegedly sold other properties in the same
estate, including Block X, Plot 21 to Mr Omotayo Lawal and Mrs
Oreofe Tayo-Lawal, and Block Y, Plot 7, to Bashirat Ogunmakin.

They also allegedly sold Block Y, Plot 33A to Mr and Mrs
Augustine and Joy Uwagboe; Block Y, Plot 10 to Mr Ayodeki
Aderibigbe; Block Y, Plot 1 to Mr Ayodeji Shomide; Block O, Plot 10
to Mr and Mrs Saheed and Zainab Alalade; Plot O, Plot 12B to Mr and
Mrs Oluwatosin and Olamidayo Olukoya; and Block O, Plot 12B.

Other properties in the estate sold by the suspects are: Block
Y, Plot 21A sold to Mr Felix Banebo; Block Y, Plot 22A to Mr
Ademola Otufale; Block Y, Plot 23 and Block B, Plots 1 and 2 to Mr
Adedayo Shittu; Block B, Plot 1A; Block V, Plot 11; Block J, Plot
15; Block O, Plots 5 and 13 to Mr Tayven Nigeria Ltd.

Awosedo and Olukoga were also said to have sold Block R, Plot 9B
and Block B, Plots 1 and 2 to Mr and Mrs John and Linda
Etukudo.

Others are Block 8, Flat 6 to Mr and Mrs Olaseni and Temitope
Alabede; Block Y, Plot 20 to Mr Adedoyin Ashiru; and Block D, Plot
19 to The Address Homes Limited; and Block Y, Plot 11 to Olatoun
Bankole.

The suspects allegedly sold Block Y, Plot 1B to Mr and Mrs
Olugbenga and Oluwatoyin Ogunlalu; Block Y, Plot 5 to Mr Monday
Ataga; Block 14, Flat 4 to Mr and Mrs Joseph and Jacqueline
Akabueze; Block X, Plot 23C to Sharon Oseni; Block X, Plot 23A to
Mr Eddie Osarenkhoe; and Block Y, Plot 2 to Mr and Mrs Sylvester
and Mopelola Oyeye.

The rest are Blot F, Plot 1A to Mrs Comfort Meshinloye and Block
O, Plot 10B, which was sold to Mr Patrick Eronmwon.

The alleged offence contravenes Section 8 (1) (b) of the Lagos
State Properties Protection Law 2016.

The court ordered substituted service following the state’s
inability to serve the defendants with the charge.