The Nigerian Human Rights Community, (NIHRCO) a coalition of 130 civil rights groups and community based groups spread across the country in a petition to the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba said it has received several petitions against activities of one Abiodun Ejigbadero whose father was sentenced to death in 1979.
The rights group also sent copies of the petition to the Senate and the House of Representatives, the United Nations Human Rights Council and the African Union, AU.
The group insists that the Nigerian Government must live up to her obligations to the regional and international Human Rights conventions relating to the protection of Human lives and property
The group said if Ejigbadero terror in unchecked many human lives will be lost.
‘We have received reports from several land owners and community leaders claiming that the said Ejigbadero is not allowing them to breath. He appears to have rekindled the murderous tradition of his father. We have received tons of petitions bordering on land grabbing, threat to live and property and outright seizure of land and properties that do not belong to Mr Ejigbadero’, the group said in the petition.
‘Alimosho is facing a tough situation under two village tyrants, children of Ejigbadero, who holds the community in awe. They take over land at gun point.
They attack people. They even encroach on the land belonging to the state governments. Alimosho is under siege by the menacing terror of two children of a murderer’, the NIHRCO said in the statement signed by its officials Mallam Audu Samali, Uche Maduka and Babajide Aluko.
The group said the cell of terror ran by the Ejigbadero brothers is ‘backed by armed men who lay siege. They have imposed fear and trembling on residents, the group said adding that the police in Alimosho are trying their best to curtail the excesses of the armed gang but need the moral boost of the IG.
‘No fewer than 20 cases of land grabbing are linked to the Ejigbadero brothers’ the group said. The rights group said Ejigbadero enjoy the support of some top politicians a situation similar to the illegitimate cover given to their late father who was sentenced to death in 1979.