Akwa Ibom court orders uncle to pay nieces N20m for seizing father’s property.

An Akwa Ibom state High Court sitting in Uyo has ordered an indigene of Itiam Etoi in the Uyo local government area, Mr Sampson Silas Udoh, to pay a total of 20,100,000 to two of his nieces for breaching their fundamental rights and preventing them from inheriting their late father’s property.

The Court presided over by Justice Ntong Ntong gave the order Tuesday in a judgment delivered in a suit brought by Mr Sampson Silas Udoh to enforce his fundamental rights against his nieces.

In the suit filed on 16th August 2022, are the respondents, Mrs Bakabasi Victor James and Miss Ndantiabasi Isaac Silas, as well as Mr Williams Ubetem, the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) attached to the state Police headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia and the Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom state command.

According to the Court, “the main contention of the applicant is that his nieces being female children of his late elder brother, Mr Isaac Silas Udoh, should not inherit their father’s property because they are women, while the respondents said their father built his own house on his land between 1976 and 1980, on which they live from birth till date without any problem, until they attempted to appropriate the inheritance and their uncle unleashed mayhem on them.”

Justice Ntong Ntong, in a one-hour judgment, described the applicant’s action “as obnoxious and repugnant to natural justice, equity, and good conscience,” stressing that “the maltreatment is opprobrious, offensive and unconstitutional”.

Akwa Ibom court orders uncle to pay nieces N20m for seizing father’s property.

He said it was high time “paramount rulers, clan heads, village heads and community leaders in Akwa Ibom State came to terms with the facts that female children have an equal stake with their male counterparts to inherit their parents’ properties.”

Justice Ntong held that “the applicant cannot be allowed to take advantage of the vulnerability of his nieces just because they were born girls and women into their family.”

He said, “From the totality of credible evidence before the Court, the Police and other respondents did not and are not likely to encroach or infringe upon the applicant’s rights. Instead, the applicant infringed upon the fundamental rights of his nieces with impunity, which cannot be allowed to stand.”

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The Court also held that “the application for the enforcement of the applicant’s fundamental rights has failed woefully in its entirety and dismissed; same with the cost of a total sum of twenty million, one hundred thousand Naira payable to the 1st and 2nd respondents at ten million, fifty thousand Naira, each.”

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