I.T. MUHAMMAD, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appellants herein, as plaintiffs at the Kogi State High Court of Justice, holden initially, at Obangede and later at Okene, (the court below), took out a writ of summons. The claims endorsed in both the Writ of Summons and the Plaintiffs' Joint Statement of Claim are as follows:-
"(a) A declaration that the Plaintiffs are the Beneficial Owners of the respective properties situate in various locations in Lokoja, Kogi State, individually purchased from the 4th Defendant sometime in the Year 2000.
(b) A declaration that the respective Certificates of Occupancy granted and issued by the 3rd Defendant to each of the Plaintiffs covering their respective properties purchased from the 4th Defendant in the 2000 were properly issued, valid and subsisting.
(c) A perpetual injunction restraining the Defendants by themselves, their servants, agents, privies or any person howsoever called acting on their behalf from tampering with, revokiā¦