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OKAN & ANOR.
V.
OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL & ORS.

(2011) JELR 48307 (CA)

Court of Appeal 11 Apr 2011 Nigeria
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Suit Number:CA/B/59/2006
Judges:AMIRU SANUSI Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria GEORGE OLADEINDE SHOREMI Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria CHIOMA EGONDU NWOSU IHEME Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria
Counsel:E. O. Afolabi For Appellant S. U. Igbineweka For Respondent

CHIOMA EGONDU NWOSU-IHEME (Ph. D), J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): By a Writ of Summons taken out on 3/5/05, the Appellants as Plaintiffs at the High Court Benin, instituted an action against the Respondents as Defendants and crystallised their claims in paragraph 13 of their Statement of Claim in the following terms:

"13

(i) A DECLARATION that the Defendants have no right to approve the premises of the Plaintiff for the use of a private Motor Park.

(ii) A DECLARATION that the purported letter dated 29/3/03 is null and void and constitutes an infringement on the right of the Plaintiff acquire property guaranteed under the 1999 Constitution.

(iii) AN ORDER OF PERPETUAL INJUNCTION restraining the Defendants, their Agents, Servants and Privies from further approving the premises of the Plaintiff for the use of a Private Motor Park or directing anyone to use same as a Private Motor Park.

(iv) THE SUM OF N10,000,000,000.00 (Ten Billion Naira) for the untold hardship inflicted on…

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