The assertion made by Ghanaian businessman Sam Jonah that he gave him 501 hectares of land to establish River Park Estate in Abuja has been categorically refuted by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory will arraign Sir Jonah, a Knight of the British Empire, two Ghanaians, Kojo Ansah and Victor Quainoo, as well as a company, Mobus Property Nigeria Ltd, before Justice Modupe-Osho Adebiyi. They are accused of forging company documents at the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja in order to unlawfully take over Houses for Africa Nigeria Ltd. and Jonahcapital Nigeria Ltd. and to take over ownership and control of River Park Estate Abuja.
In a July 10, 2025, return letter to the Inspector General of Police, Obasanjo provided his explanation.
In a letter dated July 4, 2025, the IGP asked the former president to verify whether Sam Jonah’s assertion that he (OBJ) gave him 501 hectares of property to create River Park Estate was accurate.
Following the dispute over who owned River Park Estate, Sam Jonah wrote a petition to the police claiming that Obasanjo had given him the vast tract of land that housed one of Abuja’s largest estates.
Nevertheless, following a discreet and exhaustive investigation, the Police issued their forensic report on November 29, 2024, and their final report on June 27, 2025, in response to the petition about the ownership dispute of River Park Estate, Lugbe, and its subsidiary firms.
“Sam Jonah’s assertion that I invited him to give him or his business 501 hectares of land, or even just one piece of land, is completely false, a fabrication, deceptive, and libelous,” Obasanjo said.
Obasanjo’s response is in line with his previous letter to the Police, dated July 1, 2025, in which he stated unequivocally that Sam Jonah was entirely misremembering if he claimed that OBJ had given him any land at all.
However, Abu Arome rushed to the media to declare that the IGP had ordered a new investigation into an already completed investigation while the Police awaited Obasanjo’s response to continue their investigation into Jonah’s petition.
According to reliable sources, the IGP did not request a new inquiry, as Arome mistakenly and purposefully believed.
As you may remember, the Nigerian Police have issued a 26-count complaint against the accused individuals for allegedly participating in the falsification of company documents and submitting them to the CAC Abuja.
The charge, coded CR/402/2025, was dated June 25th but submitted on June 26th 2025. It was signed by Maureen Okonkwo, Registrar, High Court of the FCT, Abuja, and Isa Garba, prosecuting counsel, legal/prosecution division, Force headquarters, Abuja.
In particular, the complainant (IGP) claimed that the accused individuals had unlawfully raised the company’s share capital and given themselves 99 million shares by using forged signatures and documents. They also allegedly presented themselves to the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) as Nigerian citizens in order to enable their purportedly fraudulent activities.
Remember that the police have included a number of materials with the charge, including petition letters to the Commissioner of Police FCT Command and the Inspector General of Police, respectively, to support their allegations of fraud, forgery, impersonation, etc. against the defendants.
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Copies of the police investigation report, the final report, the defendants’ statements, and a letter of relinquishment of 8,000,000 shares purportedly signed by John Townley Johnson on the letterhead of Houses for Africa Holding Inc.—which police have verified is a fake—are also included with the charge.
Additional evidence include a board resolution of Houses for Africa Nigeria Ltd. dated September 9, 2013, which was fraudulently used to nominate and remove directors, as well as numerous status reports of Houses for Africa Nigeria Ltd. and Jonahcapital Nigeria Ltd.
The charge was further supported by forensic findings dated November 29, 2025, from the Nigerian Police and Keyforensics Ltd.
Additionally, because they were executed fraudulently and without authority, the police also listed the board resolutions that increased the share capital of Houses for Africa and Jonahcapital, removed Nigerian directors from Jonahcapital Nigeria Ltd. and Houses for Africa Nigeria Ltd., and processed title documents at Mobus Property Nigeria Ltd. as exhibits.
