A Kaduna State High Court on Tuesday restrained Governor Nasir El-Rufai and agencies of the state from further demolishing and taking over Durbar Hotel Plc located along the Muhammadu Buhari Way in Kaduna, the state capital.

The hotel is said to belong to the family of the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha.

The hotel has been under litigation between the Federal Government and the family of the late Head of the State since 2001.

The Abacha family was said to have won the case both at the lower and the appellate courts. It is now before the Supreme Court.

However, officials of the state, led by the Kaduna State Urban and Property Development Agency, on Wednesday night demolished the hotel.

Meanwhile, the restraining order was based on an ex parte motion brought before the court by the hotel’s management through the lawyer to the Abacha family, Mr Reuben Atabor, praying the court for an order of interim injunction restraining el-Rufai and agencies of the state government from demolishing, taking over, or tampering with the property.

The hotel management, in the application, also sought an interim injunction restraining el-Rufai and agencies of the state government from further trespassing on the property pending the determination of the motion on notice.

Consequently, Justice Hanatu Balogun of the state high court, upon hearing the ex parte motion, granted the order.

“I grant an order restraining the defendants from taking over the property in issue and from further tampering with same or trespassing on same or developing or assigning same pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice,” she stated in the order.

The case was then adjourned till February 4.

mapet:


The Abacha family did not even own the hotel, they hijacked it through their front Daniel Kanu of the Youth Earnestly Ask for Abacha (YEAA).

post=86007067:
But this Hotel owned by one of the evil past leaders that destroyed our nation and truncated our democracy in the HOPE of MKO has been destroyed!

What actually is the purpose of this news?!

ibabkr:
But the hotel had been demolished since last week Saturday

DaBullIT:
So title says court restains El rufai from demolishing hotel

writeup says

officials of the state, led by the Kaduna State Urban and Property Development Agency , on Wednesday night demolished the hotel

OP ARE YOU OK ??


more to the point You would realise that Judiciary is a Joke , this piece of property has been in court since 2001 and they have not been able to conclude ?

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