JUWON DRAGS OSUN LAWYER TO NBA OVER ALLEGED FORGERY AND PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT,COURT DECEIT AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY

In what observers describe as a classic case of robbing Peter to pay Paul, the Judiciary Watch of Nigeria (JUWON) has dragged a lawyer, Mr. Muyideen Adeoye Galadima, before the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) over allegations of land title forgery, professional misconduct, and abuse of judicial processes.

JUWON alleged that Mr. Galadima forged a land title document belonging to another lawyer, now deceased, and fraudulently converted it for the benefit of his clients.

The group described the alleged act as highly unethical, fraudulent, and grossly unbecoming of a legal practitioner, further describing Galadima as a serial forger and pathological liar.

According to JUWON in a Letter dated 10th of February,2026 and forwarded to the National President of NBA, the lawyer audaciously tendered the disputed document before a Federal High Court, allegedly in a bid to obtain justice “through the back door” over ownership of a vast expanse of land.

This, the group noted, was done despite an existing and subsisting judgment of a competent High Court which, as far back as 1997, had ruled in favour of Madam Sinatu Adeoye.

JUWON further alleged that the matter escalated beyond the courtroom. Still pressing what it described as a fraudulent agenda “from the frying pan into the fire,” Mr. Galadima was accused of wilfully instigating the complete destruction of a warehouse under construction on the judgement creditor land.

The group claimed that, emboldened by the allegedly forged document, the lawyer’s clients mobilised and carried out the demolition under the mistaken assumption that the land belonged to them.

JUWON also alleged that the Osun-based lawyer fraudulently converted a Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) belonging to a legal luminary, the late Barrister Tunji Abolade, in an attempt to lay claim to judgment land on behalf of a NIPCO Filling Station, the Alare-Iyiolu family, and others.

The said NIPCO Filling Station is reportedly located beside the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Office, adjacent to the popular Biket Junction, along the Osogbo–Ikirun Road.

While instituting the action on behalf of the said petrol station and three others as his clients, Mr. Galadima was further alleged to have claimed that the late Barrister Tunji Abolade was his client—an assertion JUWON described as a desperate attempt to dispossess the judgment creditors of their lawful land.

This unhealthy development, JUWON stated, culminated in the malicious destruction of the warehouse on the midnight of February 4, 2026, said to belong to one of the several allottees of the judgment creditor, the late Madam Sinatu Adeoye.

It would be recalled that a State High Court, in a judgment delivered on February 26, 1997, affirmed the late Madam Sinatu Adeoye as the real and genuine owner of a vast expanse of land located on both sides of the Osogbo–Ikirun Road.

The areas covered by the judgment include, but are not limited to, Powerline Area, Omidiran Garden, Iyana Camp, Biket Junction Area, and Ifesowapo Community which shared boundaries with Bidire family land,all within Osogbo.

JUWON noted that the judgment debtor did not pursue any appeal against the ruling for over 28 years, having accepted the verdict of the State High Court.

However, in Suit No: FHC/OS/CS/23/2026, Mr. Galadima was alleged to have attached a Certificate of Occupancy dated July 1, 1981, bearing the name of the late Barrister Tunji Abolade, as the title document for NIPCO Petrol Station, Olugbenga Aro, Latona Olaiya Tajudeen, and Waheed Raheem.

When the matter was reported at the Ota-Efun Divisional Police Station and the Zone XI Command Headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force in Osogbo, the police reportedly requested Mr. Galadima and his purported clients to produce their title documents.
JUWON alleged that they were evasive in complying with the request.

Meanwhile, JUWON, through its Deputy National Secretary (DNS), Comrade Michael James, has called on the police to conduct a thorough and credible investigation into the alleged forgery, urging law enforcement authorities not to hesitate to press criminal charges against all implicated persons—particularly the lawyer, who, the group stressed, is duty-bound by professional ethics to uphold the truth and justice.

Comrade James also called on the leadership of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to constitute an independent and unbiased panel of inquiry to investigate the allegations, stressing that such action is necessary to sanitise the association and protect the hard-earned reputation of the legal profession from disrepute.