ENERGY MARINE AND INDUSTRIAL LTD. V. MINISTER OF THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY & ANOR

JIMI OLUKAYODE BADA, J.C.A (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the Judgment of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in Suit No. FCT/HC/CV/198/07 delivered on the 23rd day of July 2008.

The Appellant as Plaintiff by an action commenced at the lower Court claimed against Respondents the following reliefs:-

"(i) A declaration that the demolition of the Plaintiff's property at Plot 49, Aminu Kano Crescent, Maitama District, Abuja by the Defendants herein and allocating same to the 3rd party in spite of approval given to the Plaintiff prior to construction is unjust, arbitrary, high-handed, oppressive, wrongful and amounts to breach of contract between the Plaintiff and the Defendants having regard to the terms of allocation of the said Plot in the letter of offer dated 22nd February 2001 from the Defendants to the Plaintiff herein.

(ii) An Order directing the Defendants herein to pay the Plaintiff a total sum of (=N=45,000,000.00) Forty-Five Mill…