AMECHI IFEKANDU & ORS V. BONIFACE OBIETO AGOM & ORS

BITRUS GYARAZAMA SANGA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): Before the High Court of Anambra State of Nigeria, Onitsha Judicial Division, Holden at Onitsha, the Appellants as Plaintiffs instituted Suit No: 0/110/80, against the Respondents as 1st to 13th Defendants via a 3rd Further Amended Statement of Claim dated 10th March, 2008 claiming against the defendants jointly and severally for the following reliefs:

1. Declaration that the Plaintiffs are entitled to statutory right of occupancy over Ani Nwoke Land verged red on the Plan No NLS/AN683/89.

2. N40,000,000 general damages for trespass.

3. An order of injunction restraining the defendants, their servants and agents and any person claiming through or under them from entering or remaining on the plaintiffs’ Ani Nwoke Land verged red on the Plan No. NLS/AN/683/89 or from building or continuing to build any building or structure thereon, or from letting out the buildings and structures on the said land, or from doing anything on …