River Park Estate: Court Refuses To Restrain FCT Minister, Property Firm

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has turned down a request to grant an order restraining a property firm, Paulo Homes Ltd, the FCT minister and the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) from carrying out further activities within River Park Estate, Abuja.

This followed the outright refusal by the court, headed by a vacation judge, C.O. Agashieze, to hear a motion on notice marked M/10188/2025, drawn from a suit filed by JonahCapital Nigeria Ltd against Paulo Homes Ltd, the FCT minister, and FCDA.

The motion on notice arose from the suit with number FCT/HC/CV/2902/2025, filed via writ of summons dated July 28, 2025.

By the motion, the claimant/applicant had sought an “order of interlocutory injunction restraining the 1st defendant/respondent acting by themselves, their agents, privies, assigns, successors – in title, or any persons however described from further trespassing, seizing, taking over, selling, converting or in any way divesting the claimants/applicant’s interest or in any way tampering, with the large expanse of land within River Park Estate.

However, at the last proceeding, the motion on notice by the Claimant could not be heard because counsel to Paulo Homes Ltd, Barrister Oluwabunmi Adebiyi, had informed the court of the 1st Defendant’s preliminary objection to the suit.

Oluwabunmi Adebiyi had submitted that three Ghanaians namely; Kojo Mensah, Sam Jonah, Victor Quainoo, had despite facing charges before another FCT High Court, based on police investigation, which did confirm that the documents with which they tried to take over JonahCapital Nigeria Ltd and Houses For Africa Nigeria Ltd, were allegedly forged, with forensic report to support that, went ahead to use the name of JonahCapital Nigeria Ltd, on the 28th of July 2025, to institute an action against Paulo Homes Nigeria Ltd and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.