Alan Nwoko:
The Taxify driver showed me a big black welt on his neck.
It ran around his neck.
Blueish black.
Swollen.
He told me that in October he had gone to a real estate agency on Allen Avenue to pay for six plots of land in Lekki EPZ zone.
Twenty four million plus naira inclusive of all charges.
It was the balance of the money he had saved during three years stay in Germany and had brought back with him.
He had imported five cars from Germany into Nigeria.
He gave his parents one. His wife the other. Sold two. And was driving one.
He had paid for two years rent for his house in Surulere and furnished it.
Bought a piece of land in his village in the East which he was still developing.
And hurriedly done the traditional and white wedding to his Igbo bride who had waited for him during his stay in Germany.
The purchasing of the land at the Lekki EPZ zone was a long term investment for him.
While in Germany he had got into a partnership with a manufacturing company and was going to build a factory on the land for the fabrication and assemblage of solar power equipments using their propietary technology.
He had inspected the land.
Met with the Baale and the Omo-oniles.
Got the C of O.
Took it to the local government and the land registration offices.
Met the officers he was directed to and their authenticity was confirmed.
Then he had in the first week of last month he had paid the money into the accounts of the real estate company and promptly on the advise of his wife, he had mobilised builders and gone to the land to fence it in order to ward away trespassers.
At the site as they began work, some of the Omo- Oniles who he had never seen had accosted them and an argument had ensued when they told them that the plots of land belonged to three other individuals collectively....
P. S; omo niles are in charge of land construction locally. Baale is like the traditional ruler. The location is in the western part of Nigeria. The yoruba land to be precise.
To be continued... If you like it upvote, comment, resteem.
