This is my wifes account of the Edojah saga. Sade Gbadamosi is the Financial Director of Redbrick Homes International Ltd, developers of Amen Estate. Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned Wow, it is true indeed! Hell hath no fury as a woman shunned! Solomon Edojah, former Delta State Commissioner for Special Duties, Warri Water Project is behaving like a woman shunned, angry and furious about not owning a house at Amen Estate, lying to police and misrepresenting to court. ALWAYS FAILING TO MENTION THAT HIS REFUND REQUEST HAD BEEN COMPLIED WITH BEFORE HE WROTE THE PETITION AND BEFORE HE WENT TO COURT. The Facts of this matter: Solomon Edojah, a Fara Park resident and a Delta state ex commissioner, came to Amen Estate over 5 times, before he saw us and got an offer letter for 95m on one of our houses. He had been coming since November 2013. 2. However, by 08/01/2014, I withdrew my offer letter to him because, he made several unreasonable requests: I wrote him and said a. Service Charge can be fixed only for 2 years not 5 years as he requested. b. Discounted House price was 95m not 90m as he requested. c. His payment plan was vague, and we could not accept balance in 12 months time, as he requested because this was a roofed almost ready house. d. Worst of all, he brought a deed of assignment! And I said we could not assign a property when payment has not being completed. At this stage, payment was yet to start! He came back to us appealed to us and it was a very tedious haggling, but we eventually agreed to sell him the house for 93m which he wanted to buy in his daughter’s name, as at that time, I didn’t realise the daughter was just about 6 years old, and a mere front. This offer letter had A SPECIFIC PAYMENT PLAN. He made the first initial deposit, but by the 2nd deposit which was supposed to be 17m, due 30/04/2014, he was only able to pay 2.3m. We said “why sir?” He said he gave his money to some people in the oil and gas industry who paid him interest of 17m per month and that that is the money he was relying on to pay us. But that these people fled the country with his money. But that he knows how to get them. He also said he has just recently had to complete on some very juicy property deals in Ikeja. That he owns quite a few properties in that axis, all now fully completed. Finally he also said he recently acquired ALL remaining land and property at Fara park. That we should please bear with him and accept some cement as part of the payment. We explained that we were Dangote distributors and will not be able to accept cement from him as payment. Edojah was very shocked and upset at the news that we were Dangote distributors. His plan apparently was to pay us with cement! I had to tell him that paying with cement was not part of the contract but that we will take some. Please see below how he paid the 17m he defaulted on since 30/04/2014. Date Description Amount Comments 30/04/2014 Cash 2,300,000 1st default, should have paid 17m instead he paid only 2.3m! 02/05/2014 1700 bags of cement @1900 each 3,230,000 2nd Default, could not come up with the balance cash, begged to supply cement instead! We ended up accepting some just to assist him. 05/05/2014 Transfer 3,000,000 3rd Default, could not come up with the balance cash, did a 3m transfer instead! 06/05/2014 Transfer 1,500,000 4th Default, could not come up with the balance cash, did a 1.5m transfer instead! 09/05/2014 Transfer 3,500,000 5th Default, could not come up with the balance cash, did a 3.5m transfer instead! 12/05/2014 Cheque 3,470,000 Eventually on the 12th, 17m completed, “paid” 6 times after due date. Smaller payments before due date was acceptable, but not after due date! Despite this default, we magnamously did not apply the penalties as specified in our agreement. We continued collecting some more cement and Iron instead against the next payment. Rather than receive appreciation from Edojah, he started throwing tantrums insisting that we should: Increase the house by extending the foundation Demolish 3 external walls and 2 windows to expand the house To turn the store to passage way to the study To punch in the wall 3 brand new doorways Tile balcony with sitting room granite tiles. We were flabbergasted, and all my customer services skills were put to test, trying to tactfully explain to him that all these structural changes requested above were outside the contract and we would not be able to do all, we would try to do some but that we must not flout our planning permission by making structural alterations to the house. He was furious, frustrated and obviously still very much unhappy about us being Dangote Distributors and my refusal to accept only building materials as payment! He screamed and said “please refund if you can’t comply”. The Tiles and Granite Edojah and his wife chose, suddenly became: “China Tiles”. By this stage, we were getting fed up. So I told him, why don’t you do the rest yourself, do your kitchen yourself, do the wardrobes yourself. You told me your wife sells doors, do your doors yourself, lets calculate the costs. How I tried so hard to please this man! All to no avail. We tried our best to implement some of the changes he was asking for, to reduce the aggravation I linked him up with the engineer in charge of his house, because he wanted to make changes to literarily every room of the house always looking for how to get a bigger house. This engineer had to charge Edojah for some of the “outside contract” jobs and changes he was been made to implement. Edojah paid just some of the bill. NGN 250,000 to be exact. So on the 21st of August after months of default upon default, argument upon argument, tantrums upon tantrums, we did as he requested. We refunded the total he had paid with no admin fees or penalties applied! Including the 250,000 paid to Kestalong Ventures, the engineer in charge of the said house. 100% refund of NGN 47,635,000 was paid into Hon & Mrs Solomon Edoja, Account Number 3052202725 First Bank plc. On Friday, the 22nd of August 2014, to our shock, police from Abuja attended Amen Estate, we were not in. A civil matter in which the refund request had been complied with? We wondered what was going on. We immediately sought legal advice and replied to a petition written by Edojah after receiving the refund. In which he conveniently failed to mention the refund in his petition and when we supplied proof of refund, all parties in attendance were shocked. He also commenced an ex-parte motion, again supressing the fact of the refund and under false pretences that his money was still with us, he got an exparte injunction which of course is being set aside by our legal team who have tendered evidence of refund: our company crediting Edojah’s First Bank account, at exactly 12.35pm on Thursday the 21st of August 2014. 11. So I ask myself, was Edojah bluffing when he asked for a refund? He assumed we wouldn’t be able to pay? Because all the lies and the screaming of “blue murder” started on receipt of the credit alert! Can anybody be this desperate for an Amen Estate house! Wow! Unfortunately, we can’t be intimidated. Unlike him, we are not professional politicians, we have jobs! We cannot be blackmailed into using a 6 year old as front.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 19:15:23 +0000
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