Share your omo-onile experience. Omo-onile are the children of the original owner of lands, they always feel they're still connected with the lands and will want to extort money whenever any development is ongoing on the land.

My own experience.
I happen to be overseeing our house renovation ( renovation o ) being d first son of my late dad, the renovation requires removal of the roof, additional 2 coaches on the building and changing the roof structure from gambrel to hip, then painting.

On the first day, the carpenters removed the whole roof, we were lucky not to see any omo-onile cos it was a weekend......

Then the bricklayers arrived on the third day (monday), work commenced earnestly, then the omo-onile arrived.... I was at the plank market when the bricklayer called, saying omo-onile asked them to stop work and gbas gbos everywhere. I dashed out of the plank market like a squirrel whose tail is on fire, I thought I would know one or two of the omo-onile cos I was raised in that area and know a lot of them. Unfortunately, I don't know any of them.

They greeted me first, omo boy, bawo ni? Iwo ni olorun jogun ile yi fun? Emi e a lo.. blah blah blah. ( boy, how are you? U're the one that inherited this house? May it be beneficial to u... blah blah blah). "Oya where our money" was the next sentence that came of their mouth. I asked them "owo kini?" ( which money? ) they said, i unroofed the building without giving them their money and I'm working on the building itself, so i must give them owo-ile. I just kuku ask them how much their money is and they said #200,000 I laughed and jokingly asked them to be serious, they said "se o ro pe ere la wa se n bi ni?" ( do u think we came here to play? ) i was unfazed since i know they can't beat me. After so many arguments, noise and intervention of elders, I gave them #25,000 and also agreed to give them #80,000 when we start roofing, their leader gave me his number and asked me to call him if any omo-onile come to disturb me.

On the day of roofing.....
The leader called me around 7am in the morning, I wondered how he knew it was d day we wanted to roof the house. I had planned not to give them the #80,000 but #40,000 instead, they've also planned not to collect the #80,000 but #150,000... and another round of noise, argument, intervention of elders with a bit of gbas gbos everywhere... I was unfazed as usual.

Las las sha, we agreed to a truce and I gave them #60,000.

What I learnt.
1. Most of them are children of first settlers in the area and their family own and sold a lot of land in their time.

2. The have informants everywhere, these informants roam around searching for any new development in the area.

3. They don't have proper job, extortion is their full-time job.

4. U can't avoid them. even if u call police, police will tell u to settle them, and if u call soldier, once the job is done and soldier leave, they'll disturb the house.

5. U can actually shout them down, dont be timid when u see them, if they sense fear in u, they'll manipulate d situation.

6. U cant do without giving them "something", making the "something" the least u can afford should be your priority.

7. If u dont want their wahala, go to the king and explain what u want to do to him, he'll collect a lil sum of money from u to settle them and ask them never to disturb u.

I despise omo oniles like mad

I'm here to read the usual; lies.

Well I work with developers and their usual fee in mushin per floor is 200k, decking 100k depends on your negotiation skill sha
Roofing 200k
What I always do is whenever they bring their wahala, I will just excuse them and call my bosses who in turn calls Sars or police people. That doesn't mean you won't pay but the money go reduce after enough gra gra BTW them both so who suffers most?? Me the site engineer so have got acquainted with their ogas.
Whenever we are not doing any serious project, will just look for them and buy them drinks and give them like 5k for igbo so that whenever we are working and I call my bosses, they are always lenient on me cos I be sure person.
The thing is, shey u see that 500naira, I bottle or two bottles you buy for them or when they say omo aye Jen gba nkan Kan now always go along way to help your case in times of trouble.

Shout out to tj
Tosin
Akeem
No case
Lefty all In mushin.
If those guys join Boko Haram, Nigeria is in trouble.
Dem get jazz pass devil.

Now if you decide to bring soldiers and harass them, he sure for me say una no go work for that site again unless those soldiers dey there permanently till eternity

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7. If u dont want their wahala, go to the king and explain what u want to do to him, he'll collect a lil sum of money from u to settle them and ask them never to disturb u.


[/quote]king kor, king of boiz ni, those guys have groups, they can be like 1million group
So if the king settles some, others will fall in.
The thing is they always have overall leader, that's who to settle so if others come and u tell them to call akeem for instance, the next thing u hear is na WA o, oya find us cigar and ogogoro money naw.

Those boiz their lifestyle na craze.
Dem drop sharp sand, dem go collect money
Plank o, hardcore o, cement o, rod o, dem go Sha Wan collect money on top everything.

You self must get small craze Sha.
Na so one brought anasare(hit and run jazz) and want to test it on me, I no even wait to experience the potency before I pick race, who Wan die

You can't avoid rather than to negotiate with them...even they do harrass and extort from us when we go for window installations. We fabricate Aluminium windows...
Na them and bricklayer be husband and wife ...the way they handle bricklayers u go think sey, na omo onile born dem..most of these omo oniles are convicts.

lalasticlala:


You should have tried to briefly explain the concept of 'Omo-onile' or put the English word in bracket for those who don't really understand it before sharing your story

done.

Perfecttouchade:
You can't avoid rather than to negotiate with them...even they do harrass and extort from us when we go for window installations.
Na them and bricklayer be husband and wife ...the way they handle bricklayers u go think sey, na omo onile born dem..most of these omo oniles are convicts

I was shocked when i saw the same set of guys extorting other people for drilling borehole at d street behind ours after collecting #60k from me.

Unfortunately, their leader wasn't around when I gave them d #60k cos I asked someone to go withdraw d money from bank and he couldn't wait cos he wanted to attend to other people.

I greeted as i walked pass them and noticed one of the two guys crossed to d other side of the street, the leader just attacked me saying I gave them #50K when we've agreed on #60k, I told him I gave d guys #60k, so he called them and asked me to say what I just said those guys were winking to me but I no look oju uche and said it straight to their face that I gave them #60k. Na im d leader change am for them, I quickly left them to their fracas.

southniyikaye:
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7. If u dont want their wahala, go to the king and explain what u want to do to him, he'll collect a lil sum of money from u to settle them and ask them never to disturb u.

Mynd4[/b]4, lalasticlala

king kor, king of boiz ni, those guys have groups, they can be like 1million group
So if the king settles some, others will fall in.
The thing is they always have overall leader, that's who to settle so if others come and u tell them to call akeem for instance, the next thing u hear is na WA o, oya find us cigar and ogogoro money naw.

Those boiz their lifestyle na craze.
Dem drop sharp sand, dem go collect money
Plank o, hardcore o, cement o, rod o, dem go Sha Wan collect money on top everything.

You self must get small craze Sha.
Na so one brought anasare(hit and run jazz) and want to test it on me, I no even wait to experience the potency before I pick race, who Wan die

the king will settle the overall leader, once the overall leader is settled, no wahala.

When some guys came later, i just called the leader and everything was settled, but I buy drinks for the guys sha and feego (500naira) exchanged hands when they said they can't go empty handed

better as u just leave them to sort theirselves , these people will collect foundation money, collect roofing money ,still chop food for your site when you are roofing...I thought they created a law to arrest anyone who parades theirselves as omo onile but they can't stop these their nonsense at all

theenchanter:
I was shocked when i saw the same set of guys extorting another people for drilling borehole at d street behind ours after collecting #60k from me.

Unfortunately, their leaders wasn't around when I gave them d #60k cos i asked someone to go withdraw d money from back and he couldn't wait cos he wanted to attend to another people.

I greeted as i walked pass them and noticed one of the two guys crossed to d other side of the street, the leader just attacked me saying I gave them #50K when we've agreed on #60k, I told him I gave d guys #60k, so he called them and asked me to say what I just said those guys were winking to me but I no look oju uche and said it straight to their face that I gave them #60k. Na im d leader change am for them, I quickly left them to their fracas.

southniyikaye:

7. If u dont want their wahala, go to the king and explain what u want to do to him, he'll collect a lil sum of money from u to settle them and ask them never to disturb u.

Mynd4[/b]4, lalasticlala

king kor, king of boiz ni, those guys have groups, they can be like 1million group
So if the king settles some, others will fall in.
The thing is they always have overall leader, that's who to settle so if others come and u tell them to call akeem for instance, the next thing u hear is na WA o, oya find us cigar and ogogoro money naw.

Those boiz their lifestyle na craze.
Dem drop sharp sand, dem go collect money
Plank o, hardcore o, cement o, rod o, dem go Sha Wan collect money on top everything.

You self must get small craze Sha.
Na so one brought anasare(hit and run jazz) and want to test it on me, I no even wait to experience the potency before I pick race, who Wan die

o boy, i laughed so hard at the highlighted.

Perfecttouchade:
better as u just leave them to sort theirselves , these people will collect foundation money, collect roofing money ,still chop food for your site when you are roofing...I thought they created a law to arrest anyone who parades theirselves as omo onile but they can't stop these their nonsense at all

For where? That law can't work in Lagos. Will the law enforcement agents be there when these guys are on extortion rampage?

Alot of Omo Onile here on nairaland always claiming FTC

Omonile is a menace that has probably come to stay. I have never had any experience with them, but my parents have this property somewhere in the SE. The locals mandated them to give a bag of rice, carton of malt/star and 1 carton of tin tomatoes every christmas.

Every house owner remits to them. This is after what they paid while developing the property.

Rumuokoro experience.....

Damnnnnn niggarrr

Oba do well for our body for Benin

If not ehnnnn

The thing worse for hear before

I bought a land last year with my boyfriend's money still waiting for the money to build it he doesn't know about it

theenchanter:
o boy, i laughed so hard at the highlighted.

na so o, u wan wait feel am ..those guys fit commit for person site then run away ...so the best way to avoid their wahala na to negotiate with them..if you use bricklayers or laborers from that area where your site is located , they do communicate with these omo-oniles and most landlord in that environment too usually dish out details to these boys that's why u will be surprised to find them at the site few minutes to the start of works on site...there leaders also mount their boys at the major roads leading to the community...they also extort from granite suppliers that's why most of them prefer to deliver at night but forget o , these guys are always alert 24/7..each time they are on mission to extort, there is always a full bag of weed and bottles of gin(na weapon to smash head) carried along with them , na their ginger be that . U go dey hear, maa je igo Lori e (I go break bottle for ur head)

madness

Omo-onile, sounds like a group of lazy people. See the rubbish we allow in this country yet we blame government. If only Nigerians can stand up and be intolerant. At times I feel if I have my way with power, I will right so many wrongs in this nation with an iron hand

The first problem that Nigeria has is the local government

Which one is share ur omo onile experience bayi..... Lazy Nigerian youths,, no tangible News again

Lol

I'm a real estate lawyer and by virtue of my job, I've come across different countless kinds of Omoniles. I mean, I have been faced by Omoniles with charms, I once had a disagreement with Omoniles on site only to narrowly escape a terrible accident on my way back to the office, I have had several crazy experiences with Omoniles. Let me give 3.

First one was in Agboyi in Ogudu, Lagos. Client bought a plot of land and wanted to start work. Omonile boys came and said he had to pay them before he starts. They chased off his workers and seized the tools. Then, the Property Protection Law of Lagos wasn't in existence. Client called me and was panicking. I told him to calm down. I met with the Omoniles and bought 2 Schnapps for them. I noticed that their leader was the most quiet one and got his phone number. Over the weekend, I called him and asked him to supply us 4 tipper loads of sand. After that, he personally helped us negotiate with the family from 400k to 50k and we paid it in 2 installments. After that day, we didn't have a problem.

Second one happened late last year. A vast portion of land running into acres was bought by someone for investment and when he wanted to start work, Omoniles brought court summons that they had a lawsuit against the family which sold to him. According to them, my client bought from the wrong family, but they refused to raise this until the elderly man who sold to my client died.

The first meeting I had with them ended up on a rancorous note. On my way back, the driver of my vehicle lost control at high speed. We narrowly escaped somersaulting. After that day, I told the Omoniles to go get a lawyer for me to talk to as I wasn't interested in discussing with them anymore. When they got a lawyer, the first question I asked him was "do you want to make case or make money?". From that point, we found a way to resolve it.

The third one, the Omoniles resold a land they initially sold to my client. I got the Baale arrested and promised to write a petition to the State Commissioner for Chieftaincy Affairs that he should be removed from office. I don't know how he did it but my client got his land back and 3 plots extra as compensation.

Omoniles require diplomacy, strong hand, generosity and street smartness in dealing with them. Once they see that you're not afraid and if they mess up, you'll deprive them of getting money. They would avoid getting into your bad books.

pocohantas:
Omonile is a menace that has probably come to stay. I have never had any experience with them, but my parents have this property somewhere in the SE. The locals mandated them to give a bag of rice, carton of malt/star and 1 carton of tin tomatoes every christmas.

Every house owner remits to them.

this one bam o, na eternity remittance be that o.

Person wey work for company for a full year sef no go see these things for christmas.

Once you settle with the omo onile, , Biko remember that my husband is available for anything furniture o

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