A Kano State High Court, presided over by Justice Hafsat Yahaya Sani, has restrained Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and three others from demolishing the building or revoking the Rights of Occupancy of the plots situated along BUK Road in Gwale LGA of Kano State, pending determination of the motion on notice.
The Court granted the exparte application dated July 4, 2023, by counsel to the Applicants, Barrister Ibrahim Adamu.
The application was supported by an eight-paragraph affidavit duly sworn to by the Secretary in the Messrs Yakubu Na-Alah and Co Law firm.
“An order of Interim Injunction is granted to the plaintiffs restraining the defendants, by themselves, agents, privies, workmen or servants or anybody acting or claiming to act for them or on their behalf from talking any further step by way of encroaching, invading or demolition of the building, or revoking the Rights of Occupancy issued or doing any other thing that may tamper with the position of the plots, the subject matter in this suit, situated along BUK road in Gwale Government Area of Kano State, pending determination of the motion on notice,” the Court ordered.
Blueprint Weekend gathered that the Respondents in the suit include: Governor of Kano State, the Attorney General of Kano State, the Kano State Bureau for Land Management and Kano Urban Planning and Development.
Justice Sani adjourned the case until October 26, 2023, for the Motion on Notice hearing.
