Court quashes arrest warrant against lagos real estate developer

‘Police Order For My Arrest Laughable’
A Lagos-based real estate mogul and Managing Director of Harmony Gardens, Saheed Mosadoluwa, popularly known as Ibile, has described the police order for his arrest over land grabbing and kidnapping activities as laughable and a tissue of lies.

This was as a Lagos Magistrate Court, presided over by B.A. Sonuga, quashed the police declaration of Mosadoluwa as being wanted.

In a statement yesterday, Mosadoluwa said the purported order for arrest was being instigated and circulated online by a retired Assistant Inspector General of Police.

He said that the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of administration at the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, declared him wanted for kidnapping and land grabbing on Friday, September 6, 2024, without any prior formal invitation.

The statement read in part: “I received several calls. Most of those who called me informed me that a policeman who claimed to be the OC burnt unit in Zone 2, and their DCP Admin organised a press conference to fulfill their business of land grabbing with another property developer, who has been causing division within the Oni-Orisan’s family to hijack my property at Oju Ota, Oko Orisan in Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos State. I didn’t kidnap anybody, and I don’t even know who they are talking about.

”The only thing they intend to do is to disparage me and de-market my company. Another property developer has been trying to cause confusion between me and the family for the past two years, fighting my corporate existence and business.

“He has engaged many people. He went so low as to bring in someone who pretended to do business with me and later romantically fell in love with me. But I later found out that it was all a set-up. They have tried their best not only to defame me, but to also assassinate me. They failed.”

Mosadoluwa alleged that every misinformation being peddled against him online purportedly from the Nigeria Police Force, Zone 2, is the handwork of land grabbers in police uniform, led by a retired AIG.

”Nobody has invited me up till now officially. If they have an official invitation, they should show it to the world and let me show the world that my company is the nominal complainant. All they intend to do is hijack my property. They are merely hiding under the police uniform to strengthen their partner’s land-grabbing business,” he alleged.

The police at Zone 2 Onikan had recently declared Mosadoluwa wanted in a matter currently being investigated by the Inspector General of Police’s office.

But Mosadoluwa publicly condemned the declaration, alleging that it was an attempt by the police to extort him.

Magistrate Sonuga ruled in favour of Mosadoluwa, discharging the warrant of arrest against him in Suit No MCL488/MISC/2024.

The suit was filed by Mosadoluwa against the Commissioner of Police, AIG Zone 2, IGP, and DPP, Lagos State.

The Magistrate, in his ruling, ordered “An interim order quashing the purported Warrant of Arrest issued against the applicant, pending the determination of the suit.

“An Interim Order discharging the Warrant of Arrest against the applicant and instigated by the respondent, acting for the nominal complainant for lacking in merit, pending the determination of the suit.

“An Order of Interim relief sought by the applicant in the Motion of Notice dated 9th of September, 2024, are hereby granted in the interim while all the court processes in this suit, coupled with the order of this court, must be on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th respondents for them to file their respective responses.”

The Magistrate adjourned the proceeding to October 15, 2024.