STORY 1
On Sunday 1st November 2015, it was alleged that two brothers had blinded their younger sister after a family dispute concerning an estate that their late father left behind.
Olusegun Alalade who happens to be a lawyer, and Babasanjo Alalade, were served by a court bailiff from the Lagos State High Court on Friday 30th October 2015, for an action on Intermeddling with the Estate of Late Chief Daniel Okunola Alalade, their father.
This did not go down well with the brothers who immediately resulted to violence.
During the attack which happened barely two days after been served by the court bailiff, Barrister Olusegun Alalade hit the youngest child of the house, Ifeoluwa Oluwaloseyitan (Nee Alalade), with a large wooden plank in the eye and nose area.
She was been blinded on the eye and left with several nose fractures while Mr. Babasanjo Alalade, attacked her husband, Pastor Abraham Oluwaloseyitan, with a machete to the head whilst he was trying to save his wife. Other siblings who were seriously beaten and assaulted, were left with several injuries.
As at that time, Ifeoluwa was said to have been undergoing several surgeries at the General Hospital, Ikeja, where her entire eye socket is been rebuilt. She awaits further surgeries from ENT (Ear, Nose & Throat) surgeons at the same hospital.
STORY 2
Barely 3 weeks after the first story, we had yet another heartbreaking story where a boy was said to have used a cutlass on his grandmother.
It was reported that the young man and his grandmother had been fighting for years over property ownership of the house.
While man claimed his late mother owned the house and bequitted to him, his grandmother insisted the house, belonged to her.
And in the early hours of that fateful day (Nov. 20th 2015), the man asked his grandmother for the rent she'd collected from the tenant in the house - N15,000 - and when the grandmother refused, the two got into a shouting matching and before anyone could stop him, he picked a cutlass and attacked the old lady, killing her in the process.
Just like the stories with the Alalade's family and the young man who killed his grand mother so it is in many families today, though some may not be as serious as to taking a life.
Inheritance dispute have become so common this days especially because more than 70% of Nigerians and Africans as well do not have a will.
We hardly think about it maybe because we are scared to think about death.
And this will continue to cause chaos amongst families as we have seen already.
It becomes worse when after the death of a parent, Children from a previous relationship or from a secret relationship from an adulterous affair come forward to lay claim to a property, even when both sides (the legitimate children and the ones outside wedlock) have not established a relationship amongst themselves
Sometimes fighting for will has nothing to do with laziness.
It has nothing to do with greed(sometimes) but the pain of betrayal
and the resulting anger from that pain is what causes chaos
I believe that writing a will is the right thing to do, because it would go a long way in saving a lot of unwanted problems.
It is like having the last say and nobody has a way of questioning your wish.
No parent would love to see hatred between their children or would want to bring pains and misunderstanding between them after they are gone.
As for the children or families in property dispute, remember that no matter how important money is, it is not everything.
You don't believe me?
Wait till you are 6-feet under the ground.
It is easier to avoid a problem or a fight than to solve it.
So think through every decision you make
***Please make me smile.
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On Sunday 1st November 2015, it was alleged that two brothers had blinded their younger sister after a family dispute concerning an estate that their late father left behind.
Olusegun Alalade who happens to be a lawyer, and Babasanjo Alalade, were served by a court bailiff from the Lagos State High Court on Friday 30th October 2015, for an action on Intermeddling with the Estate of Late Chief Daniel Okunola Alalade, their father.
This did not go down well with the brothers who immediately resulted to violence.
During the attack which happened barely two days after been served by the court bailiff, Barrister Olusegun Alalade hit the youngest child of the house, Ifeoluwa Oluwaloseyitan (Nee Alalade), with a large wooden plank in the eye and nose area.
She was been blinded on the eye and left with several nose fractures while Mr. Babasanjo Alalade, attacked her husband, Pastor Abraham Oluwaloseyitan, with a machete to the head whilst he was trying to save his wife. Other siblings who were seriously beaten and assaulted, were left with several injuries.
As at that time, Ifeoluwa was said to have been undergoing several surgeries at the General Hospital, Ikeja, where her entire eye socket is been rebuilt. She awaits further surgeries from ENT (Ear, Nose & Throat) surgeons at the same hospital.
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| Mrs Ifeooluwa Oluwaloseyitan [Younger sister to the Alalade brothers] |
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| Mr Oluwaseyitan [Mrs Ifeoluwa's husband] |
STORY 2
Barely 3 weeks after the first story, we had yet another heartbreaking story where a boy was said to have used a cutlass on his grandmother.
It was reported that the young man and his grandmother had been fighting for years over property ownership of the house.
While man claimed his late mother owned the house and bequitted to him, his grandmother insisted the house, belonged to her.
And in the early hours of that fateful day (Nov. 20th 2015), the man asked his grandmother for the rent she'd collected from the tenant in the house - N15,000 - and when the grandmother refused, the two got into a shouting matching and before anyone could stop him, he picked a cutlass and attacked the old lady, killing her in the process.
Just like the stories with the Alalade's family and the young man who killed his grand mother so it is in many families today, though some may not be as serious as to taking a life.
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| Young man alleged to have killed his grand mom |
Inheritance dispute have become so common this days especially because more than 70% of Nigerians and Africans as well do not have a will.
We hardly think about it maybe because we are scared to think about death.
And this will continue to cause chaos amongst families as we have seen already.
It becomes worse when after the death of a parent, Children from a previous relationship or from a secret relationship from an adulterous affair come forward to lay claim to a property, even when both sides (the legitimate children and the ones outside wedlock) have not established a relationship amongst themselves
Sometimes fighting for will has nothing to do with laziness.
It has nothing to do with greed(sometimes) but the pain of betrayal
and the resulting anger from that pain is what causes chaos
I believe that writing a will is the right thing to do, because it would go a long way in saving a lot of unwanted problems.
It is like having the last say and nobody has a way of questioning your wish.
No parent would love to see hatred between their children or would want to bring pains and misunderstanding between them after they are gone.
As for the children or families in property dispute, remember that no matter how important money is, it is not everything.
You don't believe me?
Wait till you are 6-feet under the ground.
It is easier to avoid a problem or a fight than to solve it.
So think through every decision you make
***Please make me smile.
SHARE this post
2 comments:
God help us... we Dunt know Where we going in dis life... I believe God's on his way for rapture
indeed
thanks for sharing your opinion
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