OREDOLA OKEYA TRADING CO. (NIG) LTD.
V.
A-G, KWARA STATE & ANOR.
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Oredola Okeya Trad. Co. v. A-G. Kwara State (1992) 7 NWLR (Pt. 254) 412
M. E. OGUNDARE, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The plaintiff, a limited liability company bought from the Galadima Family a piece or parcel of land situate at Galadima village opposite the Ilorin Airport. Sometime later the Government of Kwara State granted a part of the land to the 2nd defendant for the purpose of a petrol station. The latter went into possession and erected a petrol station on the land granted it by the Government, who is represented in these proceedings by 1st defendant. The plaintiff protested to the Commissioner for Housing and Environment, Ilorin and when it failed to obtain redress, sued the two defendants, claiming as per its statement of claim:
"(i) that it may (be) decreed that its right of occupancy (over the land in disputed) still subsists; and
(ii) that it may be ordered that the second defendant is prohibited from occupying the land in question and/or from committing further acts of trespass on the said letter (sic)" (brackets are mine)
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