ALHAJI IBRAHIM SHEKA V. ALHAJI UMARU BASHARI

HABEEB ADEWALE OLUMUYIWA ABIRU, J.C.A.: (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court of Kano State in Suit No K/66/2009 delivered by Honorable Justice Tani Yusuf Hassan on the 21st of July, 2010. The claims of the Appellant, as plaintiff, before lower Court against the Respondent, as defendant, were for:

i. A declaration by this Honorable Court that the action of the Defendant of forcefully ejecting and seizing the goods of the plaintiff as well as his moveable properties taken away from his shop at Kwari Market, Kano without issuing him with the mandatory statutory notice is unlawful.

ii. An order of this Honorable Court directing the Defendant to pay to the plaintiff the sum of N1,500,000.00 only being the value of the plaintiff's goods seized by the Defendant or alternatively, directing the Defendant to return and hand over to the Plaintiff all his moveable properties and goods seized and taken away by the Defendant from the Plaintiff'…