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In Re Ido-Osi Local Government Area

(2018) JELR 57878 (HC)

High Court 25 Jan 2018 Nigeria
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- The claimant filed a lawsuit claiming customary right of occupancy over a piece of land. - The applicant/intervener sought to be joined as a co-defendant in the suit. - The applicant argued that it had exclusive trusteeship and control ov

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Suit Number:SUIT NO.: HAD/49/2016 MOTION NO.: HAD/25M/2018
Judges:A.L. OGUNMOYE J. (Read the Ruling)
Counsel:Taiwo Kupolati, Esq. (with him, S.C. Odofin) for the Claimants' Dayo Adamolekun, Esq. for the Defendants/Respondents; C.N. Maduka, Esq. for the Applicant/Intervener.

OGUNMOYE J. (Delivering the Ruling): By a writ of summons and statement of claim dated 10 June 2016 and filed same day, the claimant claimed against the defendants jointly and severally as follows:

(a) A declaration that the claimants are entitled to the customary right of occupancy in respect of the entire land situate, lying and being at Ugbo-Odo measuring approximately two miles in breath and three miles in length and bounded by Iludun-Ekiti along Odo Awo/Agama stream through Omi Osokia and Ero River forming the boundary of Iye-Ekiti with Usi-Ekiti.

(b) Possession.

(c) An order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants by themselves or through their agents , privies, representatives and/or servants from further entering, building, constructing, trespassing or interfering with the right of the claimants to the land situate, lying and being at Ugbo-Odo measuring approximately two miles in breath and three miles in length and bounded by Iludun-Ekiti along Odo Awo/ Agama strea…

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