A group of Ghanaian investors and concerned citizens on Wednesday, June 18, gathered outside the Nigerian High Commission in Accra to protest what they described as “systematic harassment, intimidation, and violation of our fundamental rights” by the Nigeria Police and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

“Our businesses are being hounded at every turn,” the lead developer of the River Park Estate project in Abuja, said Kojo Mensah.

The protesters raised concerns about ongoing rights violations, including frequent arrests without justification, recurring police invitations, and pressure from both the police and the EFCC.

“We’ve been arrested arbitrarily, summoned without cause, and subjected to endless interrogations, yet the very complaints we cooperated to resolve back in 2012 remain buried in some dusty file,” Mensah added.

Chanting and holding placards that read "Hands Off Ghanaian Investors!" and "Tinubu, Mahama: Intervene Now!", the demonstrators called for the immediate removal of Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun.

They accused him of deliberately targeting Ghanaian-owned enterprises in Nigeria. The protestors appealed for high-level intervention:

“We demand that President Bola Tinubu and President John Mahama use every diplomatic channel to stop this injustice.”

The demonstration coincided with the filing of a legal suit by Jonah Capital and several co-applicants at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The case lists the Inspector General of Police, the Nigeria Police Force, and the EFCC as respondents.

The plaintiffs are asking the court for a permanent injunction to stop the agencies from interfering further in the River Park Estate issue.

They are also demanding the immediate release of a long-overdue Special Investigation Panel (SIP) report and N200 million in compensation for alleged violations of their constitutional rights.

According to the claimants, the suit is intended not only to seek justice but to defend the security of foreign investments in Nigeria and discourage what they see as government-enabled intimidation of law-abiding investors.

The amended writ claims that although the SIP concluded its inquiry and submitted its findings to the Inspector General, the report has never been shared with the affected parties despite several formal requests.

The suit further alleges that a top officer within the Inspector General’s Monitoring Unit has independently reopened the case, seemingly to reverse the SIP’s exoneration of the companies involved.

A Federal High Court in Abuja has restrained the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Olukayode Egbetokun, the Commissioner of Police of the FCT, Ajao Saka Adewale, the Head of the IGP Monitoring Unit at the Force Headquarters, DCP Akin Fakorede; and others from continuous violation and obstruction in connection with the River Park Estate dispute.

Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a ruling on an ex parte motion on Wednesday, ordered the parties before him not to take any action that would foist a “fait accompli” on the court in the matter.

The judge fixed June 26 for the commencement of the hearing on the land dispute.