A court is to hear motions for joinder from interested parties in disputed case of land ownership.
Presiding judge of High Court in Port-Harcourt, Honourable Justice S. H. Aprioku, will hear the motions September 24.
The judge announced date for the motions at the end of hearing on July 2 in the Nsumide/Ada Oru land dispute.
The disputed land is on Tam David West Boulevard a stretch of road from Airport Roundabout to Obiri Ikwerre Interchange.
Speaking after the court hearing, counsel to second set of defendants, Patrice Ukposi, said the restraining order by the court stands.
There’s a standing order by the court which restrains claimants and defendants from trespassing on the disputed land pending determination of motion on notice.
The judge made the order after the counsel to second set of defendants prayed the court to maintain status quo by an order restraining claimants from further trespassing on the disputed land pending the determination of his motion on notice.
The counsel had said that the claimants were allegedly working on the land with police giving them protection and had prayed the court to intervene.
Honourable Justice Aprioku in his ruling restrained claimants and defendants from trespassing on the disputed land pending determination of motion on notice.
Second set of defendants include Mr Independence Enyidah, Mr Victor Ossai, Dr. Moses Bakpo and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic branch.
Counsel for the claimants, Collins Dike, said in a previous interview that the land belongs to Amaewhule family.
He said his clients were not asking for the ownership of the land since the issue of ownership was already settled by the Ogbakor Ikwerre Council “in favour of the Amaewhule family to which Mr Fabulous belongs”.
Dike said his clients were only asking for order of court to restrain the defendants from continuing to trespass on their land.
Claimants in the suit include Mr Fabulous Amaewhule, Mr Oluchukwu Amaewhule and Mr Ezihuo Opara for themselves and as representatives of Mbodo Community, Aluu, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State.
There’s also first set of defendants in the case.
Counsel to second set of defendants said his clients bought the land from Omuchinwo Group of Families in Mbodo Community, Aluu in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Ukposi said that his clients took possession of the land for five years before it was trespassed upon by claimants saying that they disrupted developmental plans of his clients.
