By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA– A Excessive Courtroom of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) at Maitama has ordered the service of Kind 48 on two Lebanese, allegedly concerned in land grabbing in Abuja.
Justice Hamza Mu’azu made the order following an exparte movement marked: M/645/2026, which detailed how the defendants, Fadi Alloush and Savi, allegedly flouted an order of the courtroom by continuing to construct homes on a land that was initially allotted as a leisure park.
The courtroom directed that the Kind 48 which is a discover of penalties of disobedience to its subsisting orders, be served on the defendants by substituted means.
It ordered that the authorized doc be pasted “on the wall, fence, and gate erected round Plot 1523B (as carved out of Plot 1523A) by the third and fifth defendants and their privies, or by publishing it in a single nationwide newspaper widespread within the Federal Capital Territory.)
Equally listed as the first, 2nd, fifth, and sixth defendants, respectively, are the Minister of the FCT Administration, Nyesom Wike; the Abuja Metropolitan Administration Firm (AMMC) Division of Parks and Recreation; Ishioma Religion Gomenti; and an unknown individual.
“Take discover that except you obey the route contained so as made by honourable Justice H. Mu’azu on twenty seventh Might 2025, you can be responsible of contempt of courtroom and will likely be liable to be dedicated to jail,” the courtroom additional held.
The substantive swimsuit, marked: FCT/HC/CV/1506/2025, was introduced earlier than the courtroom by a claimant, O. A. U. Parks & Backyard Restricted.
Justice Mu’azu mounted March 10 for the defendants to look earlier than the courtroom for the contempt motion to be heard.
Particularly, the courtroom had on Might 27, 2025, after it heard an software that was introduced earlier than it by the claimant which has a workforce of legal professionals led by Dr. Ehiogie West-Idahosa, SAN, held as follows:
“An order of interim injunction is granted restraining the third – sixth defendants herein, their brokers, privies, assigns, servants and whosoever acts on their behalf and or instruction from tempering, providing to promote, promoting, assigning, mortgaging, getting into, partitioning, digging, constructing, development, excavation, fencing and erecting buildings of any type or standing on the property generally known as Park No. 1523A Mabushi District, Off Ahmadu Bello Approach, FCT Abuja, pending the listening to and dedication of the movement on discover.
“An order of interim injunction is granted restraining the third – sixth defendants from taking any additional step regarding the subject material of this swimsuit and or to keep up the established order, pending thr listening to and dedication of the movement on discover.”
Nonetheless, the claimant informed the courtroom that whereas the case was pending, the 2 Lebanese, with the assistance of armed safety operatives, took over the recreation Park and commenced excavations and development actions.
Consequently, except for praying the courtroom to restrain the defendants, the claimant urged the courtroom to declare it as the only bonafide proprietor of the piece of land coated by conveyance of approval dated November 8, 2013, with File No. AMMA/P&R/S.500.
It additional prayed the courtroom to declare that the presence of the defendants on the land with out the consent and or permission of the claimant amounted to a trespass.
In addition to, “An order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants both by themselves, agent, servant, proxies, assigns or in anyway so known as from interfering, or doing something in anyway together with additional trespassing, re-allocation, alteration, taking possession or erecting any construction (s) on the claimant’s piece of land mendacity situate at Park No. 1523A Mabushi District Off Ahmadu Bello, FCT Abuja, coated by conveyance of approval dated November 8, 2013, with File No. AMMA/P&R/S.500.”
The claimant additionally prayed the courtroom to award the sum of N500 million as normal damages occasioned by the defendants’ illegal acts and trespass.
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