THE TRUE STORY OF THE LATEST CRISIS THAT HAS DEVELOPED BETWEEN THE OONI OF IFE AND HIS FORMER QUEEN, NAOMI'S FAMILY (DETAILS)

 

According to reports, Naomi threw caution to the wind and boasted that her brother shouldn't remain imprisoned and should be freed.

Many people were shocked when she swiftly uploaded it to Instagram thereafter. She clearly portrayed the Ooni as being responsible for her family's plight in secret. The mother of a person who left the palace in 2021 also said that because of her, her brother Gbenro was harassed.

Although Naomi insisted on being addressed as Ooni's wife, the police insisted on handling the situation impartially.

Adewale Adeyemi, a contractor and one of the petitioners who had secured the ex-wife of the Ooni's arrest, clarified the situation by saying that he had been hired by Gbenro to provide sand for the filling of a project that the Ooni's company was overseeing.

Adewale backed his arguments with a petition letter addressed to the AIG, Ondo zone 17, Akure, that was authored by his attorney.

The report reads: 

“It was our clients’ brief that the petitioner was approached by a serial swindler one Mr Gbenro who bought 32 plots of land from our client without payment and all our efforts to reach him have proved abortive as he has absconded.”

According to the petition and other reports, Gbenro fraudulently bought the said land on behalf of Ojaja Pan Africa Limited, but refused to pay the owners of the land.  

It was learnt that Gbenro, under the pretence of working for the Ooni, convinced the land owners including one Iya Eko, to release  parcels of land for the project, and he allegedly got Iya Eko to issue him a receipt to the tune of N55million.

Meanwhile, the contractor, Mr Adeyemi Adewale in another letter written to the Ondo State Commissioner of Police, proffered that his life has been threatened by Gbenro.

Titled, ‘A case of cheating and misconduct likely to cause breach of peace against Mr Oluwagbenro Akinfolarin Ogunseyi calls for investigation,’ Adewale disclosed how over N4million got trapped in Gbenro’s hands.

The letter reads, “I started the work and Mr Oluwagbenro Ogunseyi refused to pay my money despite that I also needed to pay other workers that worked for me. The commissioner of police sir, it will interest you sir that Mr Gbenro Ogunseyi had been threatening my life that I should not ask for the money again.” (sic)

To confirm the petitions and other documents at our disposal, our reporter put a call through to the same Wale Adeyemi on Wednesday who disclosed that he had truly petitioned the police when the said Gbenro refused to pay him and he has also dragged him before the court of law. He said what infuriated him most was the flagrant rejection of all peace moves he had tried to make with him.

Similarly, an 85-year-old woman and the head of Atibiti Faaye family, popularly known as Iya Eko, also in a phone chat on Wednesday said she was allegedly duped by Gbenro, as he failed to pay her N20million, meant for the second land purchased from her.