The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has said that the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Winhomes Global Services Limited, Stella Okengwu, made several false claims about her alleged $250 million investment in the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project.
During a tour of the highway on Sunday, Umahi said a recent
Federal High Court ruling on the case struck out her suit for lacking merit.
The minister insisted that, contrary to Okengwu’s claim,
what was presented publicly as a ‘residential development’ is, in substance,
only a gatehouse structure with no further development on the site.
Umahi explained that she expressly deposed that the firm had
sold the land in question to third parties, which is inconsistent with the
position they presented before the court.
He added that the Federal High Court held that Mrs. Okengwu
and Winhomes Global Services Limited lacked the locus standi to institute the
action, having admitted through their filings that they no longer held any
proprietary interest in the land.
The court found that the plaintiffs failed to disclose a
reasonable cause of action against the defendants.
“She has told several lies against the Minister of Works.
She has been so wild in her negative comments against the good intentions of
the Renewed Hope administration in revolutionising road infrastructure
nationwide. The court of law has exposed her claims as mendacious and
unfounded, and this goes to show she is no more than a troublemaker and false
alarmist,” Umahi said.
Umahi further announced that the first 47-kilometre section
of the Lagos–Calabar coastal highway will be opened to traffic in December
2025.
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