OKWUDILI OKONTA & ANOR V. CHIEF (BARRISTER) IKENNA EGBUNA

EMMANUEL AKOMAYE AGIM, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): On the 15th of June 2010, the respondent herein, as plaintiff commenced suit No 0/135/2010 against the appellants herein as defendants at the Onitsha Judicial Division of the Anambra State High Court by a writ of summons, accompanied by a statement of claim, list of witnesses, statements of oath of 5 plaintiff's witnesses and exhibits P1 - P8 being the documents in support of the plaintiff's claim. In the writ of summons and paragraph 30 of the statement of claim plaintiff claimed for:

a) A declaration that the plaintiff is a person entitled to a certificate of occupancy for the piece and parcel of land (One acre) which is shown in the dispute plan No. E.E.O/AND 002.2010 made by a registered surveyor E.E. Okafor filed along with the summons in this suit.

b) An order of court ordering the defendants to refund to the plaintiff the sum of N6,400,000.00 (Six Million, four hundred thousand Naira only) being the present value …