FCCPC seals Abuja's Peachville Estate offices over breach of 2025 compliance order
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Nigeria's competition and consumer protection commission has sealed the head office and estate management office of Peachville Platinum Facility Management in Abuja, saying the company defied an August 2025 order to stop coercive service charges against residents.
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) on Thursday sealed the head office of Peachville Platinum Facility Management (PPFM) Limited on Airport Road, behind King's Court in Abuja, and the company's management office at Peachville Gardens, opposite the Games Village, over what the commission described as defiance of its 2025 compliance order.
The enforcement team, led by Marvin Nadah, acted on complaints by residents over the management's alleged failure to address consumer-related concerns. Residents listed persistent problems with water supply, electricity, refuse disposal, the physical environment and general maintenance of the estate. At the facility management office, officials gave staff members, including an employee identified as Farida, 15 minutes to vacate before sealing the premises, while all gates leading to the affected section of the estate were locked and sealed and workers at a construction site were told to leave.
The dispute dates back to 8 August 2024, when the FCCPC received a formal complaint from the Peachville Estate Residents Association (PERA). The association accused the facility manager of making subscription to its services compulsory as a condition for owning or occupying property in the estate, imposing unjustified service charges and failing to provide satisfactory electricity, water, security and internet connectivity.
After engagements and mediation, the commission issued a compliance notice in August 2025 directing the company to cease and desist from enforcing agreements that compel residents or allottees to subscribe to its services as a condition of ownership or occupancy, and to stop disconnecting services to residents who declined its facility management services. It also ordered a comprehensive breakdown of all service charges imposed since August 2024, recognition of PERA as the estate community's representative body on matters of collective interest, and amendments to its service arrangements to comply with the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act, 2018. The company and its executive director were given seven business days to comply, with the commission warning that failure would attract further enforcement under Section 150(4) of the Act.
LEADERSHIP reported that the commission may also have received fresh petitions from residents over continued facility management and service delivery concerns, and that a petition by the law firm Raphael Adakole & Co. is pending before the FCT Commissioner of Police, accusing Peachville Platinum and some officials of criminal trespass, theft, mischief and criminal conspiracy. Nadah told the newspaper that the commission's management would issue an official statement on the operation on Friday.