A. NNAMANI, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): In this suit the plaintiffs/appellants (hereinafter known as appellants) brought a claim in the High Court of Oyo State against the Attorney-General of Oyo State (herein referred to as the respondent) in the following terms:
"1. The plaintiffs claim against the defendant for a declaration that the plaintiffs were the owners by inheritance under native law and custom of pieces or parcels of land thousands of acres at Oritamefa, Ibadan abutting both sides of Queen Elizabeth Road running from the TOTAL GARDEN ROUNDABOUT and stretching
(a) towards the Secretariat Road;
(b) Onikoko Stream, embracing both Oba Ademola II and Oba Abimbola Streets;
(c) Are Family Land (all on the one side of Queen Elizabeth Road) and on the other side;
(d) the stretch of land from Queen Elizabeth Road up to Ojo Stream extending upwards to the land at the upper Ojo Stream Agodi Area, up to and also embracing the land on which stands the I.D.H. compulsorily a…