…As investigation shows company hit by fresh petitions from residents
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has sealed off parts of Peachville Estate in Abuja, including its facility management office, following reported defiance of a 2025 order to stop unethical practices against residents.
The commission’s enforcement team, led by Marvin Nadah, on Thursday sealed off head office along the Airport Road, behind King’s Court due to unattended complaints by residents in one of the estates.
It also sealed off management’s office at Peachville Gardens, opposite Games Village area of Abuja as a result of rampant complaints over water supply, electricity, refuse disposal, the physical environment, and general maintenance.
At the office, FCCPC officials gave members of staff, including a staff member identified as Farida, 15 minutes to vacate the premises before sealing the facility.
All gates leading to the affected section of the estate were locked and sealed, while workers found at the construction site were asked to leave before the officials completed the operation.
When approached by our correspondent for details of the enforcement exercise, the team leader, Nadah, said the commission’s management would address journalists or issue an official statement on the operation on Friday.
The dispute between Peachville Platinum Facility Management (PPFM) Limited and residents of Peachville Estate dates back to 2024, when the FCCPC received a formal complaint from the Peachville Estate Residents Association (PERA).
The complaint, received on August 8, 2024, accused the facility management company of allegedly imposing its services on residents as a condition for owning or occupying properties within the estate.
The residents also complained about what they described as unjustified service charges and unsatisfactory provision of essential facilities, including electricity, water, security and internet services.
Following engagements and mediation between the parties, the FCCPC, in August 2025, issued a compliance notice directing the company to discontinue practices it considered inconsistent with consumer protection and competition laws.
In a media report published on August 21, 2025, the commission was quoted as ordering Peachville Platinum Facility Management to cease and desist from enforcing any agreement compelling residents or allottees to subscribe to its services as a condition for property ownership or occupancy.
The commission also directed the company to stop coercive practices, including the disconnection of services against residents who declined to engage its facility management services.
It further ordered the company to provide the residents’ association and affected residents with a comprehensive breakdown of all service charges imposed from August 2024, explaining the basis for the charges.
The FCCPC also directed the company to recognise PERA as the representative body of the estate community in matters of collective interest and amend its service engagement arrangement to comply with the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act, 2018.
The company and its executive director were given seven business days from receipt of the notice to comply.
The commission warned that failure to comply would attract further enforcement measures under Section 150(4) of the FCCPA.
However, investigations by our correspondent indicates that
aside from the non-compliance with the 2025 order, FCCPC may have been inundated with a gale of fresh petitions by residents of Peachville estate lamenting continued unwholesome practices by the management.
Sources told our correspondent that in the fresh petitions, residents lament poor facilities management, service delivery and the management’s relationship with the residents’ association.
The development also comes amid a pending petition to the FCT Commissioner of Police over a complaint of trespass by the management.
A petition by the law firm of Raphael Adakole & co. cited by our correspondent petition submitted accused Peachville Platinum and some of its officials of “criminal trespass, theft, mischief and criminal conspiracy.”
