MASOBI NIGERIA LIMITED & ORS V. REV. DR. STEPHEN OKAFOR & ORS

MISITURA OMODERE BOLAJI-YUSUFF, J.C.A. (Delivering the Lead Ruling): The appellants/applicants instituted suit no HID/130/2005 in the High Court of Anambra State, Idemili Judicial Division and claimed the following reliefs against the respondents:

(a) A declaration that the said parcels of land at Ojota as properly delineated in survey plan No. AC/LD54/2006 is the property of the first and second plaintiffs in accordance with Ojota Customary Laws. And that the 1st and 2nd plaintiffs are entitled to the Certificate of Occupancy.

(b) A declaration that the first defendants Memorandum of Customary Grant of land is a forgery and that the Customary Right of Occupancy was obtained fraudulently.

(c) An injunction restraining the defendants, their servants, Attorneys, thugs, and or Agents and each of them from continuing or repeating similar or other acts of trespass on the land.

(d) #2, 608, 620.00 (Two Million Seven Hundred and Eight Thousand, Six Hundred and Twenty Naira) special damages again…