Ghanaian businessman Sam Jonah’s assertion that former President Olusegun Obasanjo gave him 501 hectares of land to establish River Park Estate in Abuja has been categorically refuted.
Sir Jonah, a Knight of the British Empire, two Ghanaians, Kojo Ansah and Victor Quainoo, as well as an Abuja-based attorney, Abu Arome, and a business, Mobus Property Nigeria Ltd, are scheduled to appear before Justice Modupe-Osho Adebiyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court. They are accused of falsifying company documents at the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja in an attempt to unlawfully take over Houses for Africa Nigeria Ltd. and Jonahcapital Nigeria Ltd., as well as assuming ownership and control of River Park Estate Abuja.
On July 10, 2025, Obasanjo submitted a reply letter to the Inspector General of Police that included his explanation.
In a letter dated July 4, 2025, the IGP had asked the former president to investigate the veracity of Sam Jonah’s claim that he (OBJ) had given him 501 hectares of land to create River Park Estate.
Sam Jonah had claimed that Obasanjo had given him the vast tract of land that housed one of Abuja’s largest estates in a plea he sent to the police following the dispute over ownership of River Park Estate.
But after conducting a thorough and confidential investigation, the Police issued a forensic report on November 29, 2024, and a final report on June 27, 2025, in response to the petition about the ownership dispute of River Park Estate, Lugbe, and its subsidiary companies.
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“It is completely false, a fabrication, deceptive, and libelous that I invited Sam Jonah to give him or his company 501 hectares of land, or even just one piece of land, for that matter,” Obasanjo declared.
It is in line with Obasanjo’s previous letter to the Police, dated July 1, 2025, in which he stated unequivocally that if Sam Jonah claimed that he (OBJ) had given him any land at all, he was entirely misremembering.
Abu Arome, however, rushed to the media to declare that the IGP had ordered a new inquiry into an already completed probe while the Police awaited Obasanjo’s response to continue their investigation into Jonah’s appeal.
The IGP did not order a new inquiry, as Arome mistakenly and purposefully believed, according to reliable sources.
The Nigerian Police have filed a 26-count charge against the accused individuals, as you may recall, for allegedly participating in the forgery of company documents and submitting them to the CAC Abuja.
The charge, which was dated June 25th but filed on June 26th 2025, was signed by Maureen Okonkwo, Registrar, High Court of the FCT, Abuja, and Isa Garba, prosecuting counsel, legal/prosecution section, Force headquarters, Abuja. It was designated CR/402/2025.
The complainant (IGP) specifically claimed that the accused individuals had unlawfully increased the company’s share capital and given themselves 99 million shares through the use of forged documents and signatures. They also allegedly presented themselves to the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) as Nigerian citizens in order to make their alleged fraudulent activities easier.
Remember how the police have included a number of exhibits with the charge, including petition letters to the Inspector General of Police and the Commissioner of Police FCT Command, respectively, to support their allegations of fraud, forgery, impersonation, etc. against the defendants?
Copies of the statements of the defendants, the final police investigation report, and a letter of relinquishment of 8,000,000 shares purportedly signed by John Townley Johnson on Houses for Africa Holding Inc. letterhead—which police have verified is a fake—are also included with the charge.
The board resolution of Houses for Africa Nigeria Ltd. dated September 9, 2013, which was used to appoint and remove directors, as well as other status reports of Houses for Africa Nigeria Ltd. and Jonahcapital Nigeria Ltd., are additional exhibits. All of these were completed fraudulently.
Along with the accusation were forensic findings dated November 29, 2025, from the Nigerian Police and Keyforensics Ltd.
The board resolution that increased the share capital of Houses for Africa and Jonahcapital, the board resolution that removed Nigerian directors from Jonahcapital Nigeria Ltd. and Houses for Africa Nigeria Ltd., and the title documents processed by Mobus Property Nigeria Ltd. were also listed as exhibits by the police because they were fraudulently and without authority.
