Landowners under the auspices of the Trustees of the Association of Plot Owners, Maitama Extension, Maitama Aliero, Abuja, have appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to restrain the military from defying a court order that barred it from trespassing on their land.
They made the appeal in Abuja Tuesday through their spokesperson, Angela Ekure, after the court postponed the case to November 7.
Justice U. P. Kekemeke of the FCT High Court, Abuja, had, on March 27, restrained the defendants – the president, Ministry of Defence, Minister of Defence, FCT Minister and Minister of Justice – from the land pending the determination of a subsisting case before it. The judge adjourned the case to June 20.
The court could not hear the suit on June 20 and therefore adjourned to November 6 because of judges’ recess.
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The landowners had approached the court on December 16 to order the defendants and their agents from “committing further acts of trespass, forcibly developing, acquiring, taking over, meddling in or with, transferring, disposing off, speculating in respect of the properties of the claimants/applicants lying, being, situate at and known as and within Cadastral Zone A05, Maitama a.k.a Maitama Aliero.”
Justice Kekemeke granted the restraining order after hearing the defendants’ affidavit in support of the motion paper attached with 13 exhibits, sworn by Dr Angela Ekure and written arguments by the counsel to the applicants, Williams Ataguba.
“We’re parents who invested our hard-earned savings on these lands. But unfortunately, the institutions who are supposed to uphold law and order are the same ones defying the court order in the most despicable way,” Ekure said.
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