<p class="ql-align-justify"><strong><span style="background-color: transparent">UGOCHUKWU ANTHONY OGAKWU, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgement):  </span></strong><span style="background-color: transparent">In an action before the Damaturu Division of the High Court of Yobe State in </span><strong><span style="background-color: transparent">SUIT NO. YB/DT/HC/04/2021: MALLAM GONI SANI v. MALLAM ABDULLAHI ISIYAKA</span></strong><span style="background-color: transparent">, the Respondent herein, as Claimant before the lower court, claimed the following reliefs against the Appellant who was the Defendant in the action:</span></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><em><span style="background-color: transparent">“i. A declaration that the plaintiff is the person entitled to the grant of right of occupancy over the piece of land and the building there at Baban Tsangaya Na Goni Mamman Area, Damaturu.</span></em></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><em><span style="background-color: transparent">ii. A declaration that the defendant is a trespasser into the parcel of land at Baban Tsangaya Na Goni Mamman Area, Damaturu.</span></em></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><em><span style="background-color: transparent">iii. The sum of </span></em><strong><em><span style="background-color: transparent">N5,000,000.00 (Five Million Naira) </span></em></strong><em><span style="background-color: transparent">Damages for trespass.</span></em></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><em><span style="background-color: transparent">iv. An order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendant, agents, servants or privies form further acts of trespass into the piece of land at Baban Tsangaya Na Goni Mamman Area Damaturu, Yobe State.” </span></em></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="background-color: transparent">The parties filed and exchanged pleadings a…</span></p>