…Petition embassy
By Bose Adelaja
CITIZENS COMPASS— The solicitors for Mrs Rebecca Omokamo Godwin-Isaac, an Abuja-based real estate developer and Chief Executive Officer of Homodil Realty Limited, has requested for diplomatic and human rights intervention in the ongoing legal tussle between the developer and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Mrs. Rebecca Omokamo Godwin-Isaac (also known as Bilkisu Ishaqu Aliyu) is an Abuja-based real estate developer and the CEO of Homadil Realty Limited and Summit Estate Global Limited. She is currently standing trial for alleged multi-billion-naira land fraud and money laundering schemes in Nigeria.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has charged her with criminal conspiracy, obtaining by false pretence, forgery of land documents (specifically in Abuja’s Katampe and Guzape districts), and laundering up to N500 million to N800 million. The charges stem from allegations that she, along with her associates and husband, forged and utilized fake title documents to seize and sell plots of land, including one belonging to a 79-year-old widow, to dozens of unsuspecting investors.The case gained significant public attention when Godwin-Isaac alleged that EFCC operatives laid siege to her residential property in Guzape without adhering to a Federal High Court order that directed both parties to maintain the status quo ante bellum. Her representatives and human rights groups have raised concerns over alleged human rights violations and the cutting off of basic utilities at her residence.
The solicitors, C.A.S Oshomegie SAN & Oshomegie & Co, made the request in a petition addressed to the Head of Mission, Embassy of the United States of America.
The petition dated Friday, 17th July, 2026, said the request was “against a continuing threat to life, denial of water and food restriction of medical and legal access and disregard of a Federal High Court order”.
It was signed by Emaya J. Alibeku, Esq on behalf of C.A.S Oshomegie SAN & Oshomegie & Co chamber.
According to chamber, the continued anti human rights acts being experienced by the estate developer, could result in the unforeseen.
The petition reads: We are Solicitors to the family of Mrs Rebecca Omokamo Godwin-Isaac, herein referred to as “Our Client”, on whose behalf and firm instruction this urgent complaint and appeal for humanitarian intervention is being addressed.
Our client has instructed us in the most vehement manner, having regard to the urgency and emergent nature of this matter, to bring to your immediate attention the cruel, degrading and life-threatening conditions to which she, her workers and her children have been subjected by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
We are not asking the Government of the United States to adjudicate a Nigerian property dispute or obstruct a lawful investigation. We request urgent diplomatic engagement to protect human life and internationally recognised rights before the continuing deprivation produced an irreversible tragedy.
We state clearly that we are not, and will never be, opposed to the EFCC carrying out its lawful statutory responsibilities. However, the power to investigate crime is not the power to starve a citizen, deny her water, separate her from her children, obstruct access to her lawyers or render a subsisting order of a superior court meaningless.
PURSUANT TO Our Client’s instruction, we place the following disturbing facts before you.
The immediate human suffering and danger to life
Our Client states, and we believe her to be true, as follows:
•That since the 29th day of June, 2026, heavily armed operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have occupied and exercised physical control over Our Client’s family residence.
••That upon taking control of the residence, the operatives cut off or caused the disconnection of water supply, electricity and cooking gas.
•That access to adequate drinkable water, food, medication and other necessities required to sustain human life has been denied, instructed or severely restricted.
•That Our Client has consequently been unable to cook, bathe properly, preserve food or life with the minimum dignity guaranteed to every human being.
••That access to Our Client by her husband, children, relatives and legal practitioners has equally been denied, they obstructed or reduced to brief and tightly controlled visits.
•That good stored in the refrigerators and freezers became rotten, producing an increasingly unhealthy, offensive and unbearable environment within the residence.
••That one of the workers within the premises fainted and nearly lost his life after prolonged lack of adequate food and water.
•That the worker’s collapse was an unmistakable warning that the conditions were nolonger merely uncomfortable but capable of killing a human being.
•That Our Client’s children have been displaced from their home and deprived of the security, protection and family environment to which every child is entitled.
•That Our Client has endured hunger, thirst, darkness, fear, isolation and humiliation under the continuing presence of armed federal operatives.
•That she now genuinely and reasonably fears for her life and believed that unless an independent authority intervened, she or another occupant may suffer death or permanent injury.
EFCC has no lawful basis to remain at the residence
•That the interim ex parted order upon which the EFCC purportedly relied was made on 12th February l, 2026
That the EFCC Chairman is the head and controlling authority of the Commission and bears direct institutional and command responsibility for operatives acting under the name and authority of the Commission.
Recently, The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered all parties to maintain the status quo ante bellum in a legal dispute involving the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Rebecca Omokámo Godwin-Isaac, also known as Bilkisu Ishaku Aliyu, Homadil Realty Limited, Idakogi Richard John, and Riychado Homes Limited over a property located at Plot No. 4022, Guzape, Abuja.
The order was made by Hon. Justice J. O. Abdylmalik in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/151/2026 following the hearing of an ex parte motion dated June 30, 2026, and filed on July 2, 2026.
