MAHMUD MOHAMMED, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): In the High Court of Justice of Rivers State sitting at Port-Harcourt, the Plaintiffs for themselves and on behalf of the members of Rumueme Community Village Council instituted their action against the defendants who were required to defend the action for themselves and on behalf of the other members of the Ogbakor Rumueme Organisation and asked for the following declaratory and injunctive reliefs in paragraph 47 of their amended statement of claim as follows -
"(a.) A declaration that the Defendants are not members of the Rumueme Community Village Council in the Port Harcourt Local Government Area of the Rivers State but the descendants of Apara resident in Rumueme, Port Harcourt.
(b.) Perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, their agents, servants and privies from holding themselves out as, or claiming to be, or parading themselves as members of the said Rumueme Community Village Council."
The case of the plaintiffs …