MOHAMMED AMBI-USI DANJUMA, J.C.A (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The Appellant herein had by an endorsement in paragraph 7 of the statement of claim dated and filed on 25/9/2003 at the Nasarawa State High Court sitting in Akwanga claimed as follows:-
"A. A declaration that the Plaintiff is the lawful owner/allottee of the parcel of land lying, being and situate at behind express Hotel, Wamba Road, Akwanga measuring about 0.010 hects, and that he is entitled to the grant of a statutory Right of Occupancy over the land.
B. A declaration that the purported allocation of the aforesaid by the 2nd Defendant to the 1st Defendant is irregular, null and void and that the Certificate of Occupancy also issued to him is also null and void.
C. A perpetual injunction restraining the Defendants from trespassing on the land aforesaid.
D. The sum of One Million Naira (N1,000,000.00) only being damages for trespass.
To prove its case the Appellant called three witnesses and tendered some Exhibits -'…