Police clear developer, lawyer of forgery allegations in Lekki land dispute
The Nigeria Police Power has exonerated a staunch property developer, Alex Ochonogor, and his lawyer, Ademola Owolabi, of all allegations of forgery and wilful property injure in connection with a disputed property in Lekki, Lagos.
A police investigative report, signed by Deputy Commissioner of Police Mohammed Dahiru of the Total Investigation Fragment, Power Prison Investigation Department (FCID), Lagos, cleared each men of wrongdoing after a novel probe into the matter.
A Licensed Appropriate Reproduction of the report, dated June 13, 2025, and addressed to the Assistant Inspector Total of Police, CID Annexe, Alagbon, modified into obtained by our reporter. The report followed a petition by the defendants tough an earlier investigation which they claimed modified into compromised.
Ochonogor and Owolabi had been arraigned closing week earlier than the Lagos Negate Excessive Court docket in Tafawa Balewa Sq. over alleged forgery of land paperwork and illegal demolition of a structure on the disputed Lekki land.
Alternatively, the novel police investigation chanced on that none of the paperwork equipped by the developer and his lawyer were solid. It furthermore confirmed that the demolition of the structure on the property modified into duly authorized by relevant authorities officers.
The police said that the investigation revealed that the land in quiz, Block 133, Plot 10, Lekki Peninsula Scheme 1, modified into at the starting keep allocated by the Lagos Negate Authorities in 1994 to Essential Hamza Al-Mustapha, then Chief Security Officer to passe Head of Negate, Total Sani Abacha.
Ochonogor modified into launched to the property in 2015 by a staunch property agent, DonatusEze, Managing Director of Belief Dede and Property Nigeria Small.The demolition search modified into confirmed by Peter Omotosho of Archbond Builders Small and co-signed by Bode Agoro of the Lagos Negate Authorities.
A duplicate of the demolition search had been published in a national newspaper on 11th of September, 2009, and signed by then Permanent Secretary of the Lands Bureau, Gbenga B. Ashafa.
The police possess ensuing from this fact submitted their report to the Lagos Negate Directorate of Public Prosecution.
