HAWUA SALAMI V. BALA MOHAMMED HALIRU BAMIDELE

WALI, JSC: (Delivering the Lead Judgment) Before the Central Area Court I, Jos, Plateau State Judiciary, the Appellant as plaintiff brought thefollowing complaint against the 1st defendant, now the Respondent:- “I sue Alhaji Bala Mohammed in that, I stay in his house for about eighteen years as tenant and I am paying the rentage every month but he later on sold the house to one of the tenants by name Haliru Mustapha without informing us whether we have means to buy the house or not, while the said Haliru Mustapha (is not reach up) stay there fore about 19 years, that is the reason of my complain.” The defendant, in answer to the plaintiff’s complaint stated as follows:- “At first the house does not belong to me the defendant, it is for orphans, (marayu) and they are three in number each ofthem has two rooms and each one of them sold the house (her share) to one person but at different time; the time they sold (their share) I was not there but, I am the person who signed for them as …