What has emerged in current days is a concerted effort by a bunch of legal professionals, parading themselves in borrowed authority and inflated confidence, circulating false and deceptive claims towards Sujimoto Construction Limited. At the centre of this effort is a calculated try and mislead the judiciary, utilizing an unfounded declare of ₦24 million debt to obtain an ex parte order towards a multi-billion-naira enterprise, premised on the allegation that Sujimoto owes a person the quantity in query, in a determined bid to power the Company into administration, and expose it to dismantling and public ridicule.
Leave Builders to Build:
It is the peak of absurdity when some opportunists who’ve by no means combined cement, by no means constructed a kitchen, and by no means spent a single sleepless evening calculating the structural integrity of a imaginative and prescient imagine they’ll dismantle what they might by no means design. They circle like vultures, hoping to feast on a carcass that doesn’t exist. Some have even gone as far as to acquire deceptive exparte orders, hoping to weaponize the courts towards an organization they assume is weak.
Let it’s clear that this allegation is categorically false. Sujimoto owes no such quantity. A gaggle of legal professionals mischievously obtained ex parte orders, trying to make use of it as a strain tactic towards Sujimoto. In response, Sujimoto has acted decisively to by blocking this try, in full respect for due course of and with out conceding any legal responsibility.
Without prejudice and strictly to stop abuse of course of, Sujimoto has lodged a {bank} draft for the disputed ₦24 million with the courtroom beneath protest, pending judicial dedication. The challenge is now earlier than the courts, the place the info shall be decided. By advantage of the motions and processes duly filed by Sujimoto authorized crew, the purported powers of the directors stand suspended pending the courtroom’s resolution.
The methodology by which these malicious actors obtained this ex-parte orders is as questionable because the declare itself. In a transparent try and bypass justice, these people misled the courtroom, falsely alleging that the Sujimoto was in a state of monetary misery and unable to satisfy its obligations. They secured this malicious exparte orders on 14 November 2025 via deception, solely to emerge in January 2026 with a “legal” ambush. We have since introduced the courtroom with irrefutable proof: the billions in funds efficiently made by Sujimoto in settlement of the Company’s {financial} obligations up to now 12 months, and the operational vitality of Sujimoto. No courtroom with the total info would grant such disruptive orders towards a thriving Company.
A proper petition is already in movement towards each lawyer and particular person concerned on this orchestrated rip-off, because the Company is resolved to make sure that the architects of this falsehood face the wrath of the legislation to its excessive extent.
The Architecture of Integrity:
“True to this principle, Sujimoto continues to meet its commitments. Over the coming months, Sujimoto remains committed to systematically settle outstanding bank loans and other outstanding commercial obligations, ensuring that every responsibility is managed with discipline and transparency. By the grace of the Almighty, the Company is confident that, between now and April 2026, Sujimoto would have settled all outstanding financial and commercial obligations of the Company, reflecting the Company’s vision, resilience, and unwavering commitment to its stakeholders.” Dr. Sijibomi Ogundele, GMD/CEO, Sujimoto.
In the previous twelve months alone, Sujimoto has paid over ₦10 billion to its collectors: banks, non-public buyers, and authorities businesses. Most just lately, the corporate voluntarily repaid ₦1.28 billion to the Enugu State Government over a disputed contract that’s pending in Court, reflecting a mirrored actuality of accountability, self-discipline, and competence in a rustic the place such virtues are sometimes neglected, ridiculed, or exploited. An enterprise of this scale isn’t a roadside kiosk to be bullied. It is a regulated, structured organisation that understands one precept clearly: obligations are addressed via course of, order, and self-discipline not via intimidation.
The Sovereign Standard:
Debt, in the actual financial system, isn’t shame. Every critical enterprise carries obligations. Even Africa’s richest entrepreneurs owe billions of {dollars}. Nations carry obligations. Governments carry obligations. Banks carry obligations. Debt is a instrument. What separates success from failure isn’t the presence of obligations, however the self-discipline with which they’re managed and the imaginative and prescient that drives them ahead.
Administration is a instrument for corporations whose property can not cowl their liabilities. Sujimoto state of affairs is the polar reverse. With our current asset valuation, Sujimoto is over ₦90 billion sturdy in property; and {financial} obligations representing lower than 10% of the Company’s whole property, Sujimoto stays able of overwhelming power – a actuality solidified by the Company’s 2024 – 2025 Triple BBB+ Investment Grade ranking from DataPro, confirming a stability sheet with greater than sufficient property to comfortably cowl any potential legal responsibility. The Company stays in direct, clear communication with its stakeholders, and each excellent obligation is scheduled for settlement by April 2026.
These penny-pinching, microwave armchair legal professionals and opportunistic hustlers are hoping Sujimoto will bow, and be blackmailed, or pay them off. They think about coaxing one or two collectors into echoing false claims, then taking a reduce from any so-called “recovered” funds. It won’t ever occur. Sujimoto offers instantly with each creditor – absolutely clear, absolutely disciplined and making certain each obligation is honored on schedule. Any try to use others or weaponize misinformation will fail.
Accusers, detractors, and retailers of false publications have as soon as once more surfaced on the gates of an organization that has constructed, endured, and constantly delivered towards all odds. They arrive to not contribute or to compete, however to check its endurance.
Delivering the Future
It is a recurring sample in Nigeria for pessimists to fabricate a false narrative, amplify it on-line, and hope the general public confuses noise for proof. But in each financial system value its salt, actual outcomes can’t be dismissed. Tangible accomplishments can’t be rewritten by hearsay. The wages of workers, the integrity of contractors, and the belief of buyers usually are not simply concepts. They are actual. They are measurable. And they’re immutable.
For twelve unbroken years, Sujimoto has constructed on the precept of humanity first. Wages totaling over ₦7 billion have reached 1000’s of Nigerian households, sustaining fathers and moms, uncles and sisters who rise earlier than daybreak, labor via exhaustion, and return residence carrying each dignity and hope.
Sujimoto isn’t merely an organization. It is a creed: a fellowship of over 745 expert professionals and visionaries certain by unyielding requirements, self-discipline, and religion in Africa’s potential. Every false declare towards the corporate shall be met with agency authorized motion, decisive response, and unwavering public readability. Sujimoto shall be compelled to petition the suitable authorities towards any particular person or entity that advances or propagates claims of this nature.
To those that mistake our silence for weak spot or our self-discipline for vulnerability.
Sujimoto has an announcement.
Sujimoto have spent twelve years laying a basis that no authorized technicality can dismantle, and no opportunist can declare. Sujimoto have survived {economic} storms that will have swallowed lesser visions and within the face of final 12 months’s challenges, the Company selected integrity over evasion, settling over ₦10 billion in {financial} obligations to make sure its companions had been made complete.
Let it’s identified: We didn’t construct this empire to be held hostage by manufactured devices or weaponized misinformation. To anybody trying to make use of the courts to grab what they might by no means create, put together for the total weight of the legislation, the whole power of our establishments, and the unyielding resolve of an organization that has already confirmed it can’t be damaged. We will struggle with every part we’ve got to guard our folks, our companions, and the way forward for African excellence.
