It is located on 25 acres at the summit of Juba Hill in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
[1][2] In 1978, President Siaka Stevens gave International Construction Company the contract to build a presidential residence.
[1] The company was owned by businessman Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil.
However, Siaka Stevens willed the property to his children and his family believe that they are the rightful owners.
In 2012, during the Ernest Bai Koroma presidency, the All People's Congress (APC) administration gave the property to the Stevens' family, who turned it into several rental apartments.