In a significant development, a Federal High Court in Kano has issued a restraining order against the state government’s plan to demolish a Mega Plaza comprising 316 shops situated in the Fagge Local Government Area
The court’s intervention came after it received an ex parte motion application, dated July 19, which was filed by Ali Balarabe and Ibrahim Maileda, seeking urgent legal protection for the commercial complex.
The defendants in the suit with no. FHC/KN/CS/225/2023 are the Inspector General of Police, Kano State Government, Attorney General of Kano State, Kano State Urban Development Board, Kano Road Transport and Traffic Agency, KAROTA.
Granting the order on Thursday, the judge, S. A Amobeda, urged the parties to maintain the status quo pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.
The plaintiff had, among others, sought the relief of the court to restrain the respondents, their agents, privies, or any other person(s) acting for and or on behalf of the Respondents from further threatening and or attempting to disturb, disrupt, and dispossess the Applicants of their fully built and occupied mega shopping plaza in Kano.
“That the Respondents, their agents, privies or any other person[s] acting for and or on behalf of the Respondents are restrained from further threatening and or attempting to disturb, disrupt and dispossess the Applicants of their fully built and occupied Mega Shopping Plaza with 316 shops, situate and located at Malam Kato Square, Fagge Local Government Area, Kano, Kano State covered by Certificate of Occu,pancy No. LKN/COM/2017/12, issued by the 4th Respondent to the then owners Messrs Haihus Unique Services Ltd. (Original Holders) and with Building Permit dated 5th January 2018, with Reference No. KNUPDA/BP/2017/850/5, issued by the 5th Respondent to the original holders and or taking any further steps howsoever and whatsoever and or the fundamental right to acquire and own immovable property as enshrined in the provisions of Sections 43 and 46 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 [as amended].
“That all parties are directed to maintains status quo pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice. 5. That the Respondents shall be served with copies of this Order of Court, Applicant’s Motion on Notice alongside copies of the affidavit within seven days of this Order to enable the Respondents file their responses”, the judge ruled.
The judge adjourned the case to October 6, 2023 for hearing.
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A Federal High Court in Kano has ruled in favor of two residents of Salanta quarters in Kano metropolis, ordering the State Government and other respondents to jointly pay each of the residents the sum of N1 million, according to Daily Trust report.
The compensation is for the attempted demolition of their properties.
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