A businessman, Dapo Olofinmakin, has
accused his mother, Olufunmilayo, of exhuming the corpse of his late father,
Segun, in a bid to sell his property on Sanya Street in the Aguda area of Lagos
State, where he was buried.
FACTUAL NAIJA NEWS gathered that Dapo,
47, had opposed the plan by his mother to move the body to another location to
facilitate the sale of the building.
In a bid to achieve her aim, Dapo, while
speaking to newsmen, alleged that his mother mobilised policemen from the Zone
2 Police Command, Onikan, to arrest him at his father’s house.
He noted that the policemen, who arrested
him and his daughter around 7.30am on October 30, 2021, detained them for 13
hours, adding that when they returned home, his father’s remains had been
removed.
Dapo said, “I am the only child of my
mother and father; sometime between 1982 and 1995, my father was not around to
manage his property because he had some challenges. During this period, my
mother got married to one Alhaji Onisemo, who is now late, and she gave birth
to my stepsister, Bukola.
“I was in South Africa when my father died
and could not return home to bury him because of the travel restrictions caused
by the COVID-19 pandemic. So, it was my uncle, Olu Akomolafe, who is my
mother’s brother, and members of the Sanya Street Landlord Association that
buried my father.
“When I returned from South Africa, my
mother started claiming she owned my father’s house. While my mother, a family
member and I were at loggerheads over claims to the property, on October 28,
2021, she came with policemen around 7.30 am to arrest me at my father’s house.
“They took me to the Zone 2 Police Command,
Onikan, where I was detained till they exhumed my father’s corpse on that same
day. I was later released around 8pm. As I speak to you, I don’t know where she
buried my father’s corpse or what she did with the corpse. She did all these
things because she wanted to sell that house and I refused.”
Dapo stated that some tenants in the house
saw his mother removing the body from the grave.
The Ondo State indigene, who stressed that
his mother was claiming his father’s house despite leaving him a long time ago
and remarrying, urged relevant authorities to intervene in the matter.
Contacted for a reaction, Olufunmilayo, who
insisted that she built the house, said a lawyer would get in touch with PUNCH
correspondent.
“That boy is a liar. I built that house and he’s here laying claims to what is not his property; my lawyer will contact you later,” she said.