ASONIBARE
V.
MAMODU & ANOR

OBIETONBARA DANIEL-KALIO, J.C.A. (Delivering the leading Judgment): This appeal is over a land dispute. The Administrators of the Estate of Late Major-General Abdul R. A. Mamudu as Plaintiffs in the lower court (Respondents in this appeal) sued the Appellant over a piece of land in Ibadan, specifically at the Government Residential Area, Agodi, Ibadan. The land was allocated to the Late Major-General who was then a Brigadier by the Military Governor of Oyo State via a letter dated the 13th of June 1979. He paid the required fees and charges and was given a Certificate of Statutory Right of Occupancy dated 12th June, 1979. In an obvious intention of commencing construction work on the land, the land was fenced, secured with a gate, with heaps of sand and gravel dumped in it. Sometime in September 1998, the Respondents observed that the Appellant entered the land. Disconcerted by the observation, the Respondents approached the court below and filed an action against the Appellant claimi…