Court restrains police, others from harassing Ghanaian investors in property dispute
The Federal Excessive Court docket in Abuja has ordered the Inspector-Fashioned of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, the Nigerian Police, and other respondents no longer to harass, arrest, or hinder some Ghanaian businessmen who filed a suit alleging violations of their famous human rights in a dispute on the River Park Property in Abuja.
The court issued the ruling the previous day in the licensed motion filed beneath suit quantity FHC/ABJ/CS/1130/2025. The suit became as soon as initiated by administrators of Jonah Capital Nigeria Restricted and their Ghanaian companions beneath the investment consortium Properties for Africa.
The case entails Ghanaian businessman Sir Samuel Esson Jonah, Kojo Ansah Mensah, Victor Quainoo, and their licensed counsel, Abu Arome. Also named as defendants in the suit are the FCT Commissioner of Police, Ajao Saka Adewale; the Head of the IGP Monitoring Unit, DCP Akin Fakorede; EFCC Zonal Commander Michael Wetkas; EFCC investigator Eunice Vou Dalyop; and one Kabiru Baba.
The plaintiffs are stressful N200 million in exemplary damages, citing repeated cases of harassment, arbitrary arrests, and the abuse of bid vitality by senior law enforcement officers. They claim these actions are tied to a contested ownership dispute over portions of River Park Property, an upscale residential improvement in Abuja.
The court issued “an enlighten of period in-between injunction restraining the defendants, whether or no longer by themselves or by their servants, officers, brokers, or privies or in every other case howsoever known as, from additional fascinating, intimidating, harassing, consuming, or detaining the plaintiffs, their privies, brokers, and officers, pending the hearing and resolution of the motion on see already filed sooner than this Honourable Court docket.
“An enlighten of period in-between injunction restraining the defendants, whether or no longer by themselves or by their servants, officers, brokers, or privies or in every other case howsoever known as, from interfering with, obstructing, or restricting the plaintiffs, their crew and staff, customers, or brokers from access, employ, and the aloof and aloof enjoyment of the applicant’s property, to wit – Situation No 4, Cadastral Zone E30, Lugbe West, in every other case identified as River Park Property, Lugbe, Abuja, pending the hearing and resolution of the motion on see already filed sooner than this Honourable Court docket.”
At the centre of the dispute is an earlier investigation launched by the Inspector-Fashioned of Police by a Particular Investigation Panel (SIP) led by DCP Usman Ahmed Imam, following more than one petitions. The panel reportedly achieved its investigation and submitted its findings to the IGP, who then directed the CP (Factual) to search out out about the record for any prison ingredients.
Alternatively, court paperwork reveal that the police possess refused to achieve the record public or act on its suggestions. As an alternative, the plaintiffs claim that the Head of the IGP Monitoring Unit, DCP Akin Fakorede—previously linked to the disbanded Particular Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)—initiated a original investigation, which they deem is aimed at overriding or suppressing the findings of the SIP.
The Ghanaian customers reveal that they've confronted ongoing intimidation, alongside with repeated police invites beneath duress, surveillance, and, in some cases, physical manhandling.
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