The Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja has restrained the Inspector-Common (I-G) of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, and the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) from taking any motion regarding the River Park Property dispute.
Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a ruling, additionally restrained different events within the swimsuit, together with the Commissioner of Police, FCT, Ajao Saka Adewale, from motion that will foist a “fait accompli” on the courtroom within the matter.
Justice Egwuatu subsequently adjourned the matter till June 26 for the graduation of the listening to on the land dispute.
Different defendants within the swimsuit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1130/2025 are DCP Akin Fakorede, Head of the I-G Monitoring Unit, Power Headquarters; the FCT Zonal Commander of the EFCC, Mr Michael Wetkas; an EFCC investigator, Eunice Vou Dalyop, additionally an ACE 1, and Kabiru Baba.
The builders of River Park Property, JonahCapital Ltd and Homes for Africa Ltd, Samuel Esson Jonah, Kojo Ansah Mensah, Victor Quainoo, and their authorized practitioner, Abu Arome, had filed the case.
Of their elementary rights enforcement swimsuit, they sought amongst others, an interim injunction restraining the police, EFCC and different events earlier than the courtroom, pending the listening to and willpower of the substantive matter.
The swimsuit arose attributable to a number of petitions over the alleged trespass and possession of the property, which pressured the I-G to arrange a Particular Investigation Panel (SIP) to harmonise and examine the petitions forwarded by totally different pursuits.
The businessmen claimed that after a number of weeks of sitting, the panel concluded its report and forwarded similar to the IGP, who in flip knowledgeable the events by means of the Principal Employees Officer 1 to the I-G that the report submitted by the SIP could be despatched to the Commissioner of Police, Authorized to evaluation and look out for prison and triable offences.
In accordance with the Ghanaian businessmen, Paulo Houses Restricted subsequently wrote one other petition on April 10 to the I-G alleging the identical allegations, which had already been investigated by the SIP.
The Ghanaians additionally knowledgeable the courtroom that regardless of totally different letters, resembling that of March 20 and April 16, despatched to Egbetokun and Fakorede, for the discharge of the investigation report of the SIP performed by an 11-member crew, that they had obtained no reply.
As an alternative, the Head of the I-G Monitoring Unit, Fakorede, allegedly commenced one other investigation on the identical material, in a bid to change the report of the 11-man panel of the I-G investigation panel.
The buyers alleged that, regardless of purporting to be conducting a contemporary investigation into the matter, Fakorede, who’s a former head of Particular Anti-Theft Squad (SARS), had continued to ask them, harass and intimidate them.
In addition they knowledgeable the courtroom that, in what seems to be double jeopardy, the EFCC arrested Mr Kojo Ansah Mensah, the CEO of JonahCapital and Homes for Africa Nigeria, and interrogated him for a number of days.
Consequently, the Ghanaian buyers petitioned the Hashimu Argungu-led Police Service Fee, complaining in opposition to the conduct of the hierarchy of the pressure in addition to the workplace of the Legal professional-Common of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN.
That they had sought their intervention because the supervisory physique for the police and the chief legislation officer of the federation, respectively.
They, subsequently, prayed the courtroom to make an order of perpetual injunction restraining the police and EFCC officers “from additional inviting, intimidating, harassing and arresting or detaining them in respect to issues or physique of issues that are the topic heads of settlement dated June 1, 2012, addendum heads of settlement of June 1, 2012 and completion settlement of July 13, 2012, underneath the guise of investigation into allegations of forgery and conspiracy to forgery.”
Moreover, they demanded N200 million in damages by means of their lead counsel, Adedayo Adedeji, SAN.
The Ghanaians additionally sought an order of courtroom compelling the police and the EFCC to launch the report of the investigation by the SIP of the Nigeria Police Power led by DCP Usman Ahmed Imam of the Power Felony Investigation Division
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