Drama as traditional worshippers invade, disrupt govt’s housing project in Ondo

Drama ensued on Monday on the web site of an ongoing Housing Property venture in Ondo State following the invasion of the location by conventional worshippers.

Stress was stated to have engulfed the location of the venture located alongside Igbatoro street, Akure, the state capital after the employees on the location scampered to security.

The worshippers who had been 21 in quantity had been stated to have maintained that their presence on the location situated reverse the state police headquarters was necessitated as a consequence of an annual ritual required to be carried out on the location.

The worshippers who stormed the property with black fowl, white pigeon and other objects to carry out the purported ritual had been led by Chief Abisoye Adigun Asoga of Akureland.

Following the event, the worshippers had been invited to the police headquarters after the builders of the federal housing property, and its Managing Director, Otunba Ademola Akin-Benson, sought the intervention of the police.

Talking on the police headquarters, Otunba Akin-Benson, alleged that the worshippers had been being sponsored by land grabbers to make use of the ritual on the web site to scare away the federal housing property developer and web site staff as he insisted that the land had been legally acquired by the federal authorities for the property.

Based on Akin-Benson, thugs and ritualists had up to now attacked web site staff on the property, which made him to method the court docket and the court docket had ordered all events together with the Deji of Akure, Oba Ogunlade Aladetoyinbo, to take care of establishment and permit the venture to proceed.

On his half, the chief of the worshippers, Chief Adigun stated opposite to allegations of land grabbing, it was the custom of Akure to carry out the ritual at a small rock contained in the property, a minimum of as soon as in ten years.

In a petition signed by the builders’ lawyer, Femi Emodamori and addressed to the state Commissioner of Police, the Deji of Akure, Oba Ogunlade Aladetoyinbo was fingered for allegedly sponsoring the ritualists.

Mr Emodamori described the invasion of the federal property web site as conventional hooliganism.

Reacting, the Deji of Akure, Oba Ogunlade Aladetoyinbo who described the allegation by the developer as false, acknowledged that the location belongs to Akure conventional worshippers.

The monarch who spoke by means of his Chief Press Secretary, Michael Adeyeye, maintained that the ritual on the property web site was in keeping with the Akure’s custom.