INTERCITY BANK PLC V. ALHAJI BELLO SANI ALI

MOHAMMED, JCA (Read the Lead Judgment): This is an interlocutory appeal against the ruling of the Kano State High Court of Justice delivered by Adamu, J. on 19/7/2000 granting the respondent’s application for interlocutory injunction against the appellant and two others restraining them from auctioning his property covered by certificate of occupancy No. LKN/ CON/RES/86/375 pending the final hearing and determination of the substantive suit pending before that court.

The respondent who was the plaintiff before the trial court was on 28/ 4/98 convicted and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment by the Failed Banks Tribunal Zone IV in Lagos. In addition to the sentence, the Tribunal also ordered the respondent to forfeit his landed property covered by the certificate of occupancy No. LKN/CON/RES/86/375 for the benefit of the appellant to off set part of the Twenty Two Million, Seven Hundred and Sixty Two Thousand, Eight Hundred (N22,762,800) which the appellant was found to have obtained fr…