A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has rescheduled the arraignment of a Nigerian lawyer, Abu Arome, three Ghanaians – Sam Jonah, Kojo Ansah and Victor Quainoo and a firm, Mobus Property Nigeria Ltd over alleged forgery and giving of false information till October 7.
The arrangement, which was earlier planned for July 16 by Justice Modupe-Osho Adebiyi (sitting in court 18), was shifted owing to heavy workload of the court on Wednesday.
The defendants are, in the charge marked CR/402/2025 and filed in the name of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), accused of forging companies board resolutions and making false claims in petitions to the police.
They are also accused of forging documents in a bid to illegally takeover two firms – Houses for Africa Nigeria Ltd and Jonahcapital Nigeria Ltd.
The defendants were said to have between January 2010 and January 2025 knowingly gave false information to the Commissioner of Police FCT Command and the Inspector General of Police through a petition dated 23rd January 2025 and 9th September, 2024 against John Townley Johnson, Adeniran Ogunmuyiwa and Paul Odili that they committed an offences of fraud, land grabbing, identity theft and misled the police officers, which they knew to be fatse and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 140 of the Penal Code Law.
In a count of the charge, the defendants were alleged to have between January 2010 and January 2025 while acting in concert, forged the board resolution of Houses for Africa Nigeria Limited purportedly transferring the 7,500,000 ordinary shares from Houses for Africa Holdings Inc. to Samuel Esson Jonah and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 362 and punishable under Section 364 of the Penal Code Law.
In another count, they were said to have, between January 2010 and January 2025 in Abuja, while acting in concert, fraudulently removed from Houses for Africa Nigeria Limited all Nigerian directors and redistributed its share capital amongst yourselves and converted Houses for Africa Nigeria Limited as majority shareholder and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 18(2)(b) of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022 and punishable under section 18(3) of the same Act.
In yet another count, the defendants were alleged to have,between January 2010 and January 2025 in Abuja while acting in concert, processed title documents of property belonging to Houses for Africa Nigeria Limited to Mobus Property Nigeria Limited with the aim of permanently depriving them of the said property w thin Riverpark Estate, Abuja and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 18 (2)(b) of the money laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022 and punishable under section 18(3) of the same Act.
They are, in count 23 accused of knowingly submitting false information to the authorities of Corporate Affairs Comm’ssion with the intention of misleading Corporate Affairs Comm’ssion that you are a Nigerian in order to illegally increase Jonahcapital Nigeria Limited’s ordinary shares capital from 1,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 which they knew as false and believe it to be false, and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 140 of the Penal Code Law.
In count 25 the defendants were said to have, between January 2010 and January 2025 in Abuja, while acting in concert, forged the signature of Adeniran Ogunmuyiwa and the letterhead of Houses of Africa Nigeria Limited and use it to remove all directors and take over the company and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 311 and punishable under Section 312 of the Penal Code Law.
