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ALHAJI MADI MOHAMMED ABUBAKAR V.BEBEJI OIL AND ALLIED PRODUCTS LTD & ORS

(2007) JELR 48997 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  SC.110/2001  •  16 Feb 2007  •  Nigeria

Coram
IDRIS LEGBO KUTIGI JSC; UMARU ATU KALGO JSC; ALOMA MARIAM MUKHTAR JSC; IKECHI FRANCIS OGBUAGU JSC; NIKI TOBI JSC;

Judgement

A. M. MUKHTAR, J.S.C (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appellant instituted an action in the High Court of Kano State against the respondents in this appeal, over the ownership of a building at No. 59B Lamido Crescent, now No. 15 Lamido Road, Kano and more particularly described in the re-certified certificate of occupancy No. LKN/RES/RC/82/ 1622. The propety was built in 1972 by Arewa Construction Limited for the appellant and he enjoyed peaceful possession of the building until 1977 when it was mistakenly forfeited to the Kano State Oil and Allied Products Ltd., under the Public Officers and Other Persons (Forfeiture of Assets) Order 1977. The appellant petitioned both the Federal and Kano State Governments, and a Federal Investigation Panel was set up. The investigation panel found that the property was wrongfully forfeited, and directed the State Government to reconsider the matter in order to redress the injustice done to the appellant. The Kano State Government after a furt…

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