The Community Leader of Gberigbe Orelade in Ikorodu area of Lagos State, High Chief Gbenga Daraloun Mayan (Baale elect) has called on the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Usman Baba and the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Hakeem Odumosu, to save the Community from threats and persistent attacks from alleged cultists being used by some land grabbers.
According to Chief Mayan, while addressing journalists in Ikorodu, said the community is seeking government intervention so as to avoid bloodshed which may arise from the usurpation of parcels of land in the Gberigbe Orelade Community.
The Baale elect stated that he has informed Police authorities to checkmate the activities of cultists which the Police authority has done a lot of a good job but the cultist refused to yield to pressure being mounted on them by the Police.
“Members of the cultists and the land-grabbers have been on the rampage in this community, selling land belonging to residents and attacking workers on construction sites, we have informed the Police authorities,” he said.
The Baale elect, however, urge the government and the Police authority to call the land grabbers to order for peace to reign in the community.
One of the claimants to the royal family of Gberigbe Orelade Community, Alhaji Moshood Andu Oshikoya, had alleged that its member was shot at by a suspected leader of the cultist, one Olamilekan Abudu (a.k.a Koboko) and the land grabber during a recent visit to the Community by the Baale elect.
Oshikoya had claimed that all cultists driven from other communities in Lagos State have now relocated to the Gberigbe community.
He explained that the Police team sent from Abuja in response to petitions written to the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Usman, were prevented by the cultists from carrying out their duties.
