Hon. Adebayo Muhammed, a member of the Kwara state house of Assembly has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over a land scam.
It is alleged that Muhammed in 2015, sold some plots of land to a group of teachers. The land in question did not belong to him.
Muhammed went as far as issuing receipts of a non-existent company to the unsuspecting teachers.
The victims; Mary Kolade, Ezekiel Babatunde, Felicia Adebiyi, Grace Awolola, Julius Omole and Abiodun Balogun complained that Mohammed has resisted all attempts they made to recover their money when they found out that the lands belonged to the Ministry of Land and Housing.
“After paying about N4million (Four Million Naira) to the lawmaker, we decided to carry out survey on the plots of land, so as to put our survey number in the Deed of Transfer between him and us but only to discover through the officials of the Kwara State Ministry of Land and Housing that the said plots of land belonged to the Federal Ministry of Land and Housing. Other people who also wanted to develop the plots of land he sold to them were equally barred from constructing anything on it,” the complainants said.
According to the EFCC, the case would be taken to court.
