By Emma Nnadozie

Police authorities in Abuja have commenced investigations into allegations made on tiktok by a Lagos-based land speculator that some of their officers demanded money for the Inspector General of Police, to settle a land case he is involved in at Ibeku-Lekki area of Lagos State.

The investigation followed widespread online publication by the land speculator, aka Ibile of Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, alleging among other things that some officers at Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos, declared him wanted because he failed to provide N150million which they claimed would be given to the IGP to let him off the hook.

However, police sources said his claims were made out of desperation to evade justice after he waylaid and kidnapped the matriarch of popular Oni-Orisan family, Chief Dupe Damazio and manhandled her with his thugs over a land dispute.

It was learned that based on the assault and kidnapping of the matriarch, the case was reported at Zone 2 Command, but all efforts to invite the land speculator failed as he boasted that nobody can arrest him.

The story took a different dimension after he allegedly orchestrated an attack against some policemen, who went to invite him over the petition.

According to police claims, he went further to release a tik tok message accusing police of trying to extort N150million from him on behalf of the IGP.

Police sources in Abuja said the authorities were not taking the allegations lightly, hence he had been invited to come to Abuja and prove his case, but since then, he has been elusive.

Based on this, it was gathered that police authorities have vowed to arrest and bring him to Abuja based also on his claims that many top officers were on his payroll and herhaps explains his refusal to honor the invitation extended to him.

Meanwhile, the family of the kidnapped and manhandled matriach has called for the urgent intervention of the Attorney General of Lagos State in suit between Sikiru Oni Orisan and four others vs China Harbor Company Ltd.

In a petition by Ezekiel Upular, the family said that the judgment delivered in their favour and a Lagos State Government gazette of village excision that the vast land at Oju Ota village, Oko Oni Orisan which belongs to their client had not been honored.

The family said that it has been discovered that a faction of their family had carried out the execution of the court order of same land and was trying and out of desperation to use the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution, DPP, to interpret and undermine the execution of earlier judgment in their favour.