A property firm, Drawcok Estates Ltd, has filed Form 48 at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, against the Nigeria Police Force; the Inspector General of Police; and Commissioner of Police Lagos Command, Oluhundare Moshood, alleging contempt of court.
Form 48 is a notice of consequences of disobeying a valid order of a court.
The application, filed before Justice Rita Ofili Ajumogobia, drawn from a fundamental rights enforcement suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/2385/2025, is dated December 1st, 2025.
The court had in a judgment delivered on November 24, 2025, granted all the reliefs claimed by Drawcok Estates Ltd in the originating motion on notice dated November 7, 2025.
Mr. Kehinde Ogunwumiju (SAN),
appeared for the Applicant (Drawcok), while F. A. O. Longe Esq. represented the 1st and 2nd Respondents in the matter.
However, in an enrolled order dated November 24, 2025, sighted by newsmen on Wednesday, Justice Ajumogobia had held “That the Applicant has a right to own and possesses her properties at No. 4 Nyasa Close, (Plot 19) Off Ontario Crescent/Mississippi Road, Maitama Abuja and No. 41/42 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, as guaranteed by the 34 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (As Amended) and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
The Judge also stated that the sealing-off and occupation of the Applicant’s properties at No. 4 Nyasa Close, (Plot 19) Off Ontario Crescent/Mississippi Road, Maitama Abuja and No. 41/42 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos by the Respondents constitute an infringement on the right of the Applicant to own property, as guaranteed by Sections 43 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (As Amended).
“That the Respondents, whether by themselves, their agents, agencies and servants, acting for or through them or any other person(s) howsoever described or claiming through them, to vacate the Applicant’s properties at No. 4 Nyasa Close, (Plot 19) Off Ontario Crescent/Mississippi Road, Maitama Abuja and No. 41/42 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria island, Lagos and deliver possession over to the Applicant forthwith.
“That the Respondents, whether by themselves, their agents, agencies and servants, acting for or through them or any other person(s) howsoever described or claiming through them, to provide security for the Applicant to take back possession of her properties at No. 4 Nyasa Close, (Plot 19) Off Ontario Crescent/Mississippi Road, Maitama Abuja and No. 41/42 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
“That the Respondents is restrained, whether by themselves, their agents, agencies, and servants, acting for or through them or any other person(s) howsoever described or claiming through them, from harassing the Applicant and refusing her access to her properties at No. 4 Nyasa Close, (Plot 19) Off Ontario Crescent/Mississippi Road, Maitama Abuja and No. 41/42 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
More so, Justice Ajumogobia made an injunction restraining the Respondents, whether by themselves, their agents, agencies and acting for or through them or any other person(s) – howsoever described or claiming through them, from interfering with or impeding or violating the Applicant’s right to own the properties at No. 4 Nyasa Close, (Plot 19) Off Ontario Crescent/Mississippi Road, Maitama Abuja and No. 41/42 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos as guaranteed by Chapter 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) as it only relates to the complaint litigated in this suit.
The genesis of this enforcement of fundamental rights action instituted by the Applicant (Drawcok) is traceable to 28 October 2025, when the Applicant’s property at Nos. 41 and 42 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, were sealed off and taken over by the 1st and 2nd Respondents.
There was a similar attempt to take possession of the Applicant’s property at No. 4 Nyasa Close, off Ontario Crescent/ Mississippi Road, Maitama, Abuja, on 4th October 2025.
The basis of the 1st and 2nd Respondents was an order of the Federal High Court, Lagos, in suit no: FHC/L/CS/2127/2025, wherein the Court found that the borrowers in that suit owe a consortium of lenders, and the Applicant was not a party to that suit.
Based on the order of the Federal High Court, Lagos Judicial Division in Suit No: FHC/L/CS/2127/2025, the 1st and 2nd Respondents took over the Applicant’s property at Nos. 41 and 42 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, and attempted to take over the property at No. 4 Nyasa Close, off Ontario Crescent/Mississippi Road, Maitama, Abuja.
The Respondents’ possession and sealing off the Applicant’s property at Nos. 41 and 42 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, precipitated the filing of the instant suit.
