Laide Bakare si ti duro lori wi pe won fe ba oko ohun loruko je ni Olorun ko si ni fun won se. Awon kan tile so wi pe oko re ti salo sugbon Laide ni ko ri bee rara.
Nje ki lo sele gan-an?
Oro ile rira ati ise kongila ile kiko kan lo di wahala laaarin ile ise oko Laide Bakere to je abanikole ati ile ise Ibanisoro MTN.
Awon Yoruba ni eniyan kii mo pon bi olomo. E je ki Alh Oriowo fun ra re salaye bi oro naa ti waye.
Alhaji, o ya o. Bisimilahi...
"There was this MTN Cooperative whose membership is of MTN workers.
Their union came together with this idea of a project called 'Y'ello Estate' to be built at Okun Ajah.
That is my home town and where I do most of my businesses. So, based on my popularity and as a philanthropist who commands respect in the area, my company, Primavera Engineering & Construction Limited, was approached by MTN to help buy five hectares of land, which we did.
Later, they came to us again and said oh, there are more demands, get us five hectares more. We did. The subscribers now became much interested in the project because they were going to make it the best of such Estates in Lagos".
"We had an agreement from the beginning because they trusted us to deliver. The agreement was for me to; one, buy the lands; two, to ensure that the lands acquired were validly documented, and three, to be the sole developer of the Estate".
"But some powerful people at MTN then came in after the agreement with the aim to hijack it.
They saw the project as a laudable one and they were shocked that I was the only man handling the project.
They came with an excuse that
many people were bidding for it and it should not be a one-man thing. But I have spent close to one billion naira on this project. The agreement was for me to collect from MTN 20 percent of the money for mobilization and then go ahead to complete it with my personal money.
And I have spent a lot on it. You know how big a project like an Estate can be; talk of roads, bridges and other amenities".
"So, since the MTN had decided to bring in another developer and my company has committed so much into executing the project, I asked that the money I have spent so far be refunded.
But when they were not forthcoming, I took the MTN Cooperative to court seeking to retrieve my money.
We got judgment from Hon. Justice Olateru-Olagbegi. We then had negotiations with MTN based on the court judgment. Under the terms of settlement, MTN was to pay us substantial sums of money".
"But MTN still refused to pay us, so we commenced third-party involvement proceedings against MTN which resulted in the issuance of an order freezing the bank accounts of MTN.
While we await action on our money, MTN went to EFCC to lodge criminal complaints against us, alleging theft of money without disclosing the court proceedings on the issue.
This was after the EFCC, on its own, had gone to court to institute criminal proceedings against us based on MTN's complaints, which is still
pending before the court".
About Olayemi Oniroyin
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