SANUSI SOKOTO V. HUSSAINI SAHABI

TUNDE OYEBANJI AWOTOYE, J.C.A.(Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is the judgment in respect of the appeal lodged against the judgment of Sharia Court of Appeal Kebbi State in SCA/KBS/08/2010 in SANUSI SOKOTO v. HUSSAINI SHARI delivered on 3/4/2013. The plaintiff instituted an action against the defendants at the Upper Sharia Court III Birnin Kebbi. His claim was as follows:-

??I, Husaini Sahabi issuing Sanusi Sokoto and Yartama Nassarawa. Because some staff of kebbi Urban Development Authority (KUDA) made a scheming for me which was not proper and they said since it is not proper for a road has in my plot which I gave them. But now I saw Sanusi Sokoto and Yartama and they claimed that the plots belong to them.

Based on this I sued them so that they tell who gave them my plot and the court will recover my plot for me.?

The court of the first instance after hearing the parties gave judgment in favour of the plaintiff which led to a further appeal to the Sharia Court of Appeal. The l…