BELI
V.
UMAR

JEGA JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The respondent in this appeal was the appellant before the court below, the Kano State High Court of Justice in an appeal against the decision of the trial Upper Area Court Gwarzo, in a farmland dispute in which he was the plaintiff while the appellant before this court was the defendant. The respondent who argued his appeal in person at the court below presented his case as follows at pages 1 - 2 of the record of appeal - “I am urging the court to retrieve my farm for me from the respondent village head. The farm belongs to my father and he had allowed me to farm on the land when he was alive. It was about 4 years ago that the farm was seized away from me by the respondent with the help of the Area Court Judge at Zarewa. I was dissatisfied with the Area Court decision and appealed against it at the Sharia Court of Appeal. The farm was awarded to me. The court made order that the respondent should hand over the farm to me but he refu…