The Oyo State Police Command has arraigned a 100-year-old man, Oladepo Ogunlade, and 61-year-old Musiliyu Ogundiran, for alleged land grabbing and destruction of economic trees.
The two advanced men were docked in an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, the state capital on Friday.
It was learnt that the defendants are in court for conspiracy, land grabbing, malicious damage, threatening violence and conduct likely to cause a breach of peace.
According to the Prosecution Counsel, Mr Philip Amusan, the two men, with the support of others at large, forcefully took 25 acres of land worth N50 million, belonging to Mr Wasiu Lawani.
Amusan said they committed the offence in 2021 at Lawani village in Ibadan.
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Furthermore, he told the court that the defendants destroyed some economic trees on the land, such as cocoa, palm and coconut trees worth N800,000, while threatening violence.
The prosecutor stated that the offence contravened the provisions of sections 516, 451 and 249(d) of the Criminal laws of Oyo State, 2000 and also Sections 6, 4 and 7(1) of the Oyo State Real Properties Protection Law, 2016.
He added that the defendants conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace by destroying the economic trees with bulldozers and without justification.
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Magistrate, Mrs O. A. Akande, admitted the defendants to bail in N5 million each and two sureties each in like sum.
She adjourned the case until June 14 for hearing.