Some body help. My client (a female) has a three bedroom bungalow at Kubwa; rented out by her late husband, as far back 2002. The bungalow was rented by a lawyer who stopped paying his rent, after the expiration of his one year contract in 2003. The tenant took the late husband to court the next year 2003, and the poor man later passed away in 2006.

This man's widow took the two boys left behind by her husband to the barrister's house, so as to settle the matter outside the court. But the lawyer refused, using all types of legal technicalities to delay the case and buy time. Judgement was eventually passed on 24th January 2011. The judgement indicates that the lawyer should settle the outstanding rent and probably pack out. The lawyer put up a stay of execution (immediately he received this judgement) on the ground that he is going to appeal court, to appeal against the judgement. The stay was granted to the Lawyer after 6 months of of another legal battle.

The point raised by this lawyer was that his late landlord was not supposed to build a house in Kubwa as a civil servant. But the fact is that rent has been paid from 2003 till date. And this is the only property left for this poor widow to take care of the children. The widow was asked to go to the BAR association chairman by sympathetic legal people handling this case. She went to the Abuja NBA chairman, to no avail. She has as well tried other means of arbitration, and they all yielded no fruit.

Can someone help out here?

Every week in the early hours of the morning she should place a calabash with palm oil in from of the house and wait and see what happens, lol