An Edo State Excessive Courtroom sitting in Benin Metropolis has restrained the claimants and defendants in swimsuit No. B/672/2023 from trespassing on a land measuring roughly 200.309 hectares, as marked and delineated in survey plan No. SEA/ED/97, located in Obagie-Nevbuosa, Ikpoba Okha native authorities space of Edo State .
The order is sequence to the listening to and willpower of a substantive swimsuit filed by Mayer Uyiekpen Ologbosere and Porticall Worldwide Farm Ltd.
The defendants embrace the Governor of Edo State, the state’s Legal professional Normal and Commissioner for Justice, and the Commissioner for Bodily Planning and City Improvement.
The choice of the court docket presided over by Justice A. N. Erhabor, adopted a movement on discover introduced pursuant to Order 40 (1)(2)(3) and (4) of the Edo State Excessive Courtroom (Civil Process) Guidelines 2018 and underneath the inherent jurisdiction of the court docket.
The claimants had prayed the court docket for an order of interlocutory injunction to restrain the defendants, their servants, brokers, or any individual appearing on their behalf or instruction, from additional trespassing on the claimants’ farm advanced the place a Coral Metropolis is about to be sited in Benin metropolis.
Moreover, the candidates sought another orders the court docket might deem match within the circumstances of the case.
Mayer Uyiekpen Ologbosere and Porticall Worldwide Farm Restricted had approached a Benin Excessive Courtroom following the alleged sudden take over of the big expanse of their farm land with a Certificates of Occupancy quantity EDSR 14764 by Edo State authorities.
The candidates had filed a 28 paragraph affidavit, displays and a written deal with hooked up whereas the Defendants filed a 7 paragraph counter affidavit and a written deal with hooked up.
Consequently, the court docket acknowledged that the affidavits from each events are extremely contentious, even combative and added that restraining one facet within the matter might ship a improper sign that the matter has been determined towards the get together so restrained.
The court docket then resolved to restrain each events within the swimsuit, their brokers, servants and anybody appearing on their authority and promised to offer the matter an accelerated listening to for peace and order.
