A Federal High Court in Abuja issued a temporary order preventing further encroachment on Centenary City.
In June 2014, former President Goodluck Jonathan presided over the project’s $18.5 billion groundbreaking ceremony.
In the case FHC/ABJ/CS/2130/2022 brought by Centenary Economic City Free Zone and Centenary City Free Zone Company, the court issued a temporary injunction.
The defendants are the Federal Capital Territory Minister, the Attorney General (AGF), the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, and the Nigerian Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA).
Others include Arab Contractors, the Federal Capital Territory Authority, and the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA).
Justice I. E. Ekwo barred them “from committing further acts of encroachment, incursion and continuing to deface and destroy the master plan of Centenary Economic City Free Zone”.
Ekwo told them to stay action on 1,262.27 hectares at Wawa District, Cadastral Zone E24, designated as Centenary Free Zone by the President in September 2014 pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
The judge granted an Order of Maintenance of Status Quo Ante Bellum on all parties in the suit to halt taking step(s) in relation to the subject matter.
In November 2016, the AGF’s office advised the FCDA that upon the grant of Free Trade Zone Status to the Centenary City, the President, pursuant to section 1 of the Nigeria Export Processing Zone Authority Act, No 63 of 1992, approved the project.
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