Family of Three Cries For Help As Inherited Property Causes Ripples In Ikorodu, Lagos

The family of Mrs Salabiu-Emeghai Victoria Oluwabunmi Kikamuan, with her child, Salabiu Bliqis Temitope, are seeking help over an inherited property that has brought sadness more than joy to their lives.

The property located at 5 Onibuore Street in Ikorodu has been a subject of torment for Salabiu-Emeghai Victoria Oluwabunmi Kikamuan, who inherited the property from her late mother, Mrs. Kafayat Bisola Lediju.

Trouble started for Mrs. Salabiu-Emeghai Victoria Oluwabunmi Kikamuan, who lives with her family at Plot 12 Pastor Adefila Street, Ire 1 Agunfoye, Igbogbo-Ikorodu, Lagos, when one Lekan Adedeji, who is popularly called “Ajagungbale”, a land grabber, who helped her late mother acquire the land, now turned around to claim the property after her mother died in April 2014.

Adedeji insisted that over his dead body will Mrs Salabiu-Emeghai take over the landed property.

Hell was, however, let loose on Saturday, 25 January 2020, when Mrs Salabiu-Emeghai wanted to work on the land that Adedeji mobilised some thugs, including uniform Policemen, to beat up and scare away workers on the land, even the presence of Mrs Salabiu-Emeghai could not stop him from unleashing the terror.

“I will not allow you to build anything on this land, even if it means killing you,” Adedeji was threatening Mrs Salabiu-Emeghai.

Every effort by Salabiu-Emeghai to bring in the law enforcement agents, the police, to stop Adedeji from the incessant attacks did not yield any fruit, as it seems Adedeji has pocketed them from acting on her case.

“The situation is getting out of hand as this land grabber is hell bent on denying me my rightful inheritance. He has even vowed to eliminate me. I don’t know what to do. Where I’m supposed to run, he is everywhere. I am not secured again,” she said.

“When Adedeji and his boys did not give rest of mind on 5 February, 2020, I had to run to a hidden place for safety in Epe in Lagos state, not knowing that his boys knew my whereabouts as they traced me to the place.

“I later ran to Abeokuta, where I was for almost six months before returning to Ikorodu to meet my husband.

“Despite being with my husband, I didn’t have the rest of mind because of Adedeji and his boys. I had to leave Ikorodu to Osogbo in Osun State for some months in 2023.

“It was, however, a relief for me when I could persuade my husband that we needed to leave the country for a vacation in London, which he accepted, but I didn’t disclose my intention of seeking asylum,” she said.