A 55-ÿear-old widow and mother of six has approached the Committee for Defence and Human Rights (CDHR) to help her retrieve the proceeds of her husband’s property from a family lawyer in Ilorin, Kwara State.

The woman, who lost her husband on June 12, last year, alleged that the Ilorin-based lawyer only paid her N16 million of the total N25 million realised from the proceeds of the two plots of land situated at Budo-Osho in the state capital.

She alleged that the property was sold off after her husband died last year without her consent.

Talking to newsmen amidst tears in the premises of the High Court in Ilorin, Jumoke Adeagbo said the alleged counsel initially released N6 million but added another N10 million when the Bureau of Lands intervened.

According to her, she opted for CDHR when all efforts failed.

“I have approached the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) but yielded no fruit; also, I sought the intervention of the Bureau of Lands who helped to plead with him before he released N10 million to make N16 million out of the N25 million he sold my late husband’s property,” she explained.

“It was when I insisted that he must pay up the balance that he took us to court, it is to silence me, I believe, because he once told me that by the time

I spend my time and exhaust my resources, I will stop disturbing him.”

When contacted on the phone, the alleged family lawyer, Issa Oladimeji Umar, told our reporter that he was at an Erinle court but directed him to Mrs.

Adeagbo, saying: “The case is in court, go to the woman, whatever she says is okay by me.”

Meanwhile, the case that came up for hearing yesterday and adjourned to July 1, by Justice Gegele, is between the family lawyer (plaintiff) and the CDHR, Comrades Afolabi and Folashade (chairman and secretary) respectively as second and third defendants.