AGUBE JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): At the High Court of Justice Ilorin, on behalf of Alao Gambari Gurumoh family, the plaintiff/ appellant by his writ of summons dated 17 March 1999 and filed on the 18
March 1999, together with his amended statement of claim filed on 29 November 1999, claimed as follows from the defendant/respondent: “(a) A declaration that the plaintiff’s family (Alhaji Gambari Gurumoh) is the customary owner of the parcel of land measuring thirty plots situate, lying and being at Kulende near Niger River Basin, Ilorin to the exclusion of the defendant or any other person(s).
A declaration that the purported sale of part(s) of the said land by Madam Ode Alao Gurumoh to the defendant (if any) , is null and void and of no effect whatsoever.
A perpetual injunction restraining the defendant, his agents, servants, privies or any other person(s) deriving authority from him from commission of further acts) of trespass on the plaintiff’s family land.”
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