By Gloria Ikibah
A real estate developer in Abuja, Engr. Success Obioma, has called for intervention of President Bola Tinubu the over the demolition of his multibillion naira property in Abuja.
Obioma, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Praco International Ltd., Psalm 127 Ltd.,
and Peace Be Still Ltd., foremost and highly reputed, in an interview lamented the unwarranted persecution by perceived enemies of progress, who misled the authority and had all his documents and titles seized and got property worth billions of naira destroyed.
According to him, in his quest to meet the housing need of the masses in the FCT, acquired, developed and managed properties for his numerous clients in FCT including high profiled Nigerians and politicians.
He narrated his ordeal and how his aspiration was frustrated and truncated, and had lost over N10 billions to demolition by FCTA.
Obioma said he was incarcerated for over two years in the struggle to get justice over illegal demolition of his properties and that of his clients.
He stated how the FCTA humiliated and frustrated him for over 20 years by seizing of title documents with destruction of multibillion naira property and even incarcerated him for more than two years and yet no hope in sight for a relief from unwarranted persecution by the authority.
Obioma, who said he had secured reliefs through court judgment over the release of his title documents, said urged the FCT Minister Nyesom Wike should know that the restoration of his title documents followed due process and he should release the remaining seized documents or restore them.
According to him, the committee set up by the FCTA as directed by the former president Olusegun Obasanjo cleared him of all allegations of possession of fake land documents as was being speculated or forge documents to acquire lands.
He said that for the 20 years the matter lasted, no one could produce one victim of his alleged illegal land deals to testify
He stated: “The membership of the committee comprised of all department heads, directors and management staff of FCTA because they were looking for fake documents as was being speculated by enemies of progress that I forge land documents to acquire lands. It gave me the opportunity to prove myself as an honest business man.
“For the 20 years the matter lasted, they could not produce one victim of my illegal land deals to testify’’.
Obioma therefore called on the Minister of FCT Nyesom Wike to intervene, even as he urged him to publish the committee report of 2002, publish the documents seized from him for the world to see how fake or originals they are.
This he said was necessary because his life was being threatened by his clients who believed that he had sold their land.
“The minister should also ask the members of that committee who are still in service to explain how I was screened, my activities screened, and documents verified and they could not identify that there were no ministerial approvals covering over 200 plots they linked to me.
“He should also study the Federal High Court judgment as a lawyer to see that there was no stone left unturned by EFCC and their collaborators to prove their informants wrong.
“H.E. Nyesom Wike should be made to know that the restoration of my title documents followed due process and he should release the remaining seized documents or restore them”, he added.
“Yes my life is being threatened by those whose properties have not been restored. Most of them have waited since 2003 till date they are now asking, having been acquitted by a court of competent jurisdiction what else is holding their documents? They have been alleging that I sold them”, he pleaded.
The developer who is presently away in London since for completion of his PhD programme he abandoned since 2003 said he was ready to suspend it to pave way for resolution of the issue
“Yes am not in the country, but am ready to suspend what am doing here to come if my attention is needed by the minister as a solution to the confusion created by the demolition.
- “The demolition gale be checked so that investors would not lose interest in FCT”, Obioma said.