No fewer than two followers of the founder of One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj Ji were injured when part of the land located at Maharaj Ji Village, along Km 10, Ibadan/Lagos expressway was invaded by suspected land grabbers.
This was made known in a press statement through the One Love Family Divine Minister for Information, Ojo Mogbadewa, and made available to newsmen.
According to the press release, over hundred hoodlums contracted by landgrabbers to invade the land on Monday, 27 June, 2023, in company of a caterpillar to grade the land.
The statement read in part “We have gotten a favorable judgment twice on the land, and we were about to start doing something on the land before some hoodlums invaded the land.
“Frankly speaking, in the course of the alleged invasion, two devotees of Maharaj Ji were seriously injured by the suspected landgrabbers.
The landgrabbers according to the release include; Prince Dare Adeleye, Ismaila Adeleke, Ayo Akinade, Wasiu Atere, Rasheed Karimu, Ismaila Ige, Mutairu Ige, Taofeek Olagoke and one Ladoja by nick name.
Maharaj Ji alleged that the part of the land are being used for farming activities, stressing, “we have gotten a favorable judgment twice on the land, and we were about to start doing something on the land before some hoodlums invaded the land’.
“My followers were beaten and injured while trying to stop the hoodlums, I called the press in order to appeal to President Buhari whose motto is to stop anti-corruption, and also the Governor of Oyo State, the Olubadan to as a matter of urgency intervene in this matter before it get out of hands and generate to something else”, Maharaj Ji said.
“We are calling on the authority in charge to come to our aids and enforce the court judgement. We cannot keep quiet, we did not trespass anybody’s land. We are calling on the federal government, the state government, the IGP, the CP, to intervene.
“The landgrabbers were sent by Boko Haram because their people are spread all over. The local government chairman should resist the temptation of selling lands to people they don’t know.
“It is high time the Oyo State government take the census of the people living in the state and if possible ban motorbike because most of them are the same stranded soldiers who are entering Nigeria borders to cause trouble to achieve their false aim that when they kill, they will go to heaven. It is an illusion,” the statement said.
Maharaji Ji, however, said that he is ready to stand as a leading vanguard and make sure that all the hoodlums and land grabbers were arrested, prosecuted, and jailed.
