Durbar Hotel: Court Fixes April 4 For Abacha Family To Prove Ownership

A Kaduna State High Court presided over by Justice Hannatu Balogun has fixed April 4th, 2022 for proof of case in the suit brought before it by Durbar Hotel Plc. against the Kaduna State Government.
The family a late former military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, had dragged the state government before the court over alleged illegal demolition of the property; alleged plans by the State government to take over the property despite pending appeal on the matter at the Supreme Court, which the state government filed challenging the verdicts of lower courts.
At the resumed hearing of the suit on Thursday, counsel for the defendants, Mustapha A.U. (SAN), represented by Sule Umar told, the court that the defendants had filed a case of change of counsel.
The hotel, located along Muhammadu Buhari Way (WAFF road) by Independence Way in the metropolis, is demanding a declaration that it is the titleholder of the parcel of land measuring about 5.378 hectares and covered by Kaduna State Certificate of Occupancy No 17789, Kaduna North Local Government Area.
A declaration that the demolition of the plaintiff’s property situates and lying at General Certificate of Occupancy of 7th May 1990 by the Kaduna State Government is unconstitutional, illegal, null, and void.
The hotel is also asking the court for an order of injunction restraining the defendants, their agents, servants, privies, and whosoever from transferring, assigning or selling in any way part of the property.
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