HAMMA AKAWU BARKA, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appeal is against the decision of the Honourable Justice Nsemeke Daniel of the High Court of Akwa Ibom State, Eket Judicial Division in Suit No. HEK/54/2016 between Nseobong Nobert Inyang and China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation Nigeria Limited, delivered on the 10th of August, 2017.
By the said judgment, the lower court conclusively held that:
My conviction is based on the fact that on the 19th of June, 2017, the Court visited the locus in quo. The plaintiff showed only a bare land which lies in front of the DW1’s house.
DW1 is the Community Laison Officer in the defendant’s company. He followed this case from the very beginning. I am persuaded to accept his evidence as being credible. In the final analysis, I find that the plaintiff has not proved that she was the owner of the land in contention.
The plaintiff is unable to discharge the burden of proof that she was in possession of the said land in order to be …