Get Guardian on GoogleThe Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has sealed parts of Peachville Estate in Abuja, including its facility management office, over alleged defiance of a 2025 order directing the company to stop practices considered inconsistent with consumer protection and competition laws.
The commission’s enforcement team, led by Marvin Nadah, carried out the operation, sealing the company’s head office along Airport Road, behind King’s Court, as well as its facility management office at Peachville Gardens, opposite the Games Village area of Abuja.
The enforcement action followed complaints by residents over alleged poor management of essential services, including water supply, electricity, refuse disposal, security and general maintenance of the estate.
At the facility management office, FCCPC officials gave staff members, including an employee identified as Farida, 15 minutes to vacate the premises before sealing the facility.
The team also locked and sealed all gates leading to the affected section of the estate, while workers at a construction site were directed to leave before the operation was concluded.
When approached 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 challenged what they described as unjustified service charges and inadequate provision of essential services, including electricity, water, security and internet facilities.
Following engagements and mediation between both parties, the FCCPC issued a compliance notice in August 2025, directing the company to discontinue practices it considered inconsistent with consumer protection and competition laws.
The commission was quoted as directing Peachville Platinum Facility Management to cease and desist from enforcing agreements compelling residents or allottees to subscribe to its services as a condition for property ownership or occupancy.
The commission ordered the company to stop coercive practices, including disconnecting services to residents who declined to engage its facility management services.
It further directed the company to provide PERA and affected residents with a comprehensive breakdown of all service charges imposed from August 2024, including explanations for the basis of the charges.
The FCCPC also directed the company to recognise PERA as the representative body of the estate community on matters of collective interest and amend its service engagement arrangements 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, with the commission warning that failure to do so would attract further enforcement measures under Section 150(4) of the FCCPA.
