Court orders police to unseal disputed Lekki property

Justice Othman Musa of a Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court sitting successful Maitama has ordered the Nigeria Police to unseal a disputed spot located successful the Lekki country of Lagos.

Justice Musa ordered the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2, Lagos State, to forthwith unseal the spot successful dispute, which the tribunal had sealed via en exparte bid granted successful the case.  

Officers of the tribunal had successful December 2025 sealed up the spot located astatine Lekki Peninsula Scheme, Lagos, pursuing an exparte bid granted by Justice Musa.

The sealed up spot houses assorted concern entities which person been operating from the premises for respective years.

The exparte bid was granted successful a cardinal rights enforcement suit numbered FCT/HC/CV/4636/2025, instituted by Mr. Henry Ugonna Orabuchi against the Nigeria Police Force and others.

The plaintiff (Orabuchi) had alleged that his cardinal rights arsenic guaranteed nether sections 34, 35, 36, 37, 41, and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), and articles 9 and 14 of the African Charter connected Human and Peoples’ Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, person been breached.

He claimed that helium purchased 3,000 quadrate meters of reclaimed onshore situated astatine the backmost of Plot No A Block 12, Lekki Peninsula Scheme...