Abuja Property Developer Slams N1bn Suit On AGF Malami

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has been sued at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, over an allegation of abuse of office.

Consequently, the Plaintiff, an international businessman and property developer, Mr Cecil Osakwe, is praying the court for an order of N1bn damages against the AGF.

Also sued alongside the AGF is a civil servant, a staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Ms Asabe Waziri, who is said to be at the centre of the case the AGF is being accused of bias in its prosecution.

Asabe Waziri and Cecil Osakwe have been in a fierce battle over the control of two units of 3-bedroom flats which was sold to Asabe Waziri by Abeh Signature Ltd, a company owned by Cecil Osakwe.

Asabe, a civil servant was said to have bought a property worth N130m in Maitama District of Abuja.
Osakwe, through his lawyer, Mr Victor Giwa, said his reputation has been damaged through the actions and decisions of the AGF in a civil case between two individuals.

The Plaintiff said he dragged Malami to court in his personal and official capacity for abuse of office as Minister of Justice, when he filed charges against him, and used the charge as a tool to blackmail and arm-twist him to give out two units of 3-bedroom flats in one of his properties at Mekong close Maitama, Abuja to Asabe Waziri, even against a valid Court Order.

Giwa also claimed that Malami used his office to supervise the continuous harassment of Osakwe, by men of the Nigerian police force on matters that are purely civil with respect to the sales of the property.

According to him, his client brought the action against the AGF both in his official and personal capacities, claiming that Malami acted with malice, and abused his office in raising charge of “collecting money under false pretence” from Asabe Waziri, when he was fully aware that Asabe Waziri moved into the property and lived in the said property for over eight months before she was eventually vacated from the property by a lawful court order that terminated the sales transaction between both parties.