RHODES-VIVOUR JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The respondent was the plaintiff in the court below. He sued the appellants/defendants on a writ of summons accompanied by statement of claim wherein he claimed against the defendants jointly and severally as follows:
A declaration that the approval for the High Court of Arochukwu by the 1st and 2nd defendants is for sitting in Arochukwu Town and not an approval forArochukwu Local
Government.
A declaration that the purported transfer of the proposed Arochukwu High Court site for Arochukwu to Ututu in ArochukwuLocal Government is nulland void,and ofno effect.
Injunction restrainingthe defendants, their agents, privies and or servants from building or continuing to build, and fromfurnishing the purported High Court buildingat Ututu until the approved High Court complex at Arochukwu is realized. A mandatory injunction directing the defendants to continue and complete the High Court complex earlier started in Arochukwu without further delay …