https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/12/federal-state-high-courts-clash-over-enugu-bus-terminal-project/#google_vignette

Two courts of cognate jurisdiction, the Federal High Court Enugu and Enugu State High court, have respectively issued varring orders in the legal battle over Governor Peter Mbah’s proposal to establish a central bus terminal opposite Holy Ghost Cathedral, Ogui Enugu.


The State government had in statement notified of it’s proposal to build a bus terminal in the Enugu City Centre, stating that the ‘slum’ occupiers in proposed site would give way for the state government’s mega city initiative.




The Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority, ECTDA, subsequently issued the tenants with eviction notice and marked the residential and office properties contained in the about eight hectares of land 14 days demolition notice.

In a suit filed at the federal high court Enugu, 11 applicants for and on behalf of the tenants, against the Governor of Enugu state, it’s agents, the Attorney General of the Federation and the Nigeria Railway Corporation, the tenants contended that they were bonafide tenants of the Nigeria Railway Corporation, owners of the landed property, which the state government has no overriding jurisdiction against section 5 (3) (b) of the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and section 1 and 49 of Land Use Act, Cap L 15, laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, adding that the state government has no the authority to evict them while their lessees with the Federal government agency still subsist.

The tenants include banks, schools, transporters, individuals and other chains of business concerns.

The tenants further contend that the Enugu state government’s bus terminal and shopping mall proposal on the property was “not altruistic but for the mundane purpose of replacing us with cronies and agents of 1st – 4th defendants.”

The tenants moved for an interim order of injunction restraining the Governor of Enugu state, the state Attorney General, the state Commissioner for Transport and the Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority (1st – 4th defendants) from demolition of their properties.

In an order for a motion ex-parte issued by the federal high court on November 23 2023, the presiding Judge, Justice M.G Umar ordered the defendants/respondents (Enugu state government and it’s agents) to “come and show cause within one week from today why this ex-parte application and restraining order sought by the plaintiffs/Applicants shall not be granted.”

But the State government on November 20 2023 went a filed a suit at the Enugu State High court seeking for an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the tenants from further carring on with their businesses, alleging that the tenants were “causing environmental pollution or degradation,” and to suspend their activities.


The state government also sought for an order of the court sealing, suspending, closing down premises in the disputed portion of land.

Granting prayers sought by the state government in it’s motion ex-parte, the state High Court presided over by Justice C.O. Ajah, Ph.D on the 23 of November 2023, restrained the tenants from further activities in the premises for “causing environmental pollution or degradation, create or cause to be created obstruction… that the respective activities of the respondents are hereby suspended by sealing and closing down the premises of the respondents…”

When the substantive matter resumed for hearing, on Friday, one of the counsel to the defendants named Unknown person in the suit, Bona Ononugbo, announced interest in the matter and said that they got information of the court sitting late Thursday as they were not served the said motion.

He also informed the court that they discovered that the Attorney General of the State who brought the matter, did not serve the parties but collected the entire process with the intention to make the court believe they have been served on the parties.

Ononugbo said, “We are surprised at the strange act and that is why we are here to inform the court because the intention is to keep the parties away and shutting them out.”


Counsel to the third Respondent, C. Emeka told the Court that his client was only served on Thursday and he needed time as required by law to respond and asked for an adjournment to enable him do so.

Responding, counsel to State government, W.I. Ezenwugo, said that the position of the third respondent was in line with the provisions of the law, hence he should be giving the time to respond.

“He is entitle to time for response. For the person unknown, we do not have his address, his identity was not known to us at the time of filing and service,” Ezenwugo said.

Justice Ajah after listening to the parties ruled that “based on the observations by the parties, the matter is adjourned to December 18, for hearing of the Motion on Notice.”

Speaking to newsmen shortly after the court session, counsel to the tenants, Bona Ononugbo said: “there was no where in the process filed, where the state government mentioned that the land which the defendants occupy belong to the federal government. In the said process filed, the state government alleged environmental pollution and degradation against the occupants of the Railway properties, the government failed to mention the proposed Bus Terminal project.

“It is now obvious that the government of Enugu state has sister motives and lacks honesty and transparency. The purported Bus Terminal project is clearly a land grabbing scheme of Governor Peter Mbah. This project is masqueraded as a public interest project when in reality it is Governor Peter Mbah and his cronies selfish project.

“Again, under section 17 of the Nigeria Railway Act, it says that no act or law should be made to regulate or control over Railway land. So what the Governor is doing is in contravention to the act and so the court lacks the jurisdiction to entertain the matter.”

Chairman of the Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority, ECTDA, Hon. Uche Anya however insisted that the project the state government what’s to execute in the property is Bus Terminal and asked the public to ignore any other story being bandied about.

State government shouldn't have marked people's properties for demolition without paying the appropriate compensation to the owners.

EcoNews:
The way the Pandora criminal Peter Obi was not able to raise common IGR that even Ikpeazu a collosal failure raised ba yet you Igbo cloth him a saint. A Pandora saint at that caught looting ₦250 million cash monthly from Anambra to his warehouse in Orile Lagos by Marvel Akpoyibo then Lagos commissioner of police. A monthly looting only rivaled by Ganduje.

We are talking about Tinubu your president and you are talking about peter Obi.
Divide the IGR under Peter Obi with the dollar to naira exchange rate under him and divide the IGR of iikpeazu by the us to naira rate under him to know the actual coefficient.
Just like saying that Tinubu has made I trillion naira in a month as against that of Jonathan 700Billion naira a month. Then you know how stupid you sound.

This is the type of GWR We are talking about. Something different, something entertaining. looking forward to the longest hr of football game.

Agbado are waiting for peter Obi to prove how he won election whereas peter is contesting that the election was not conducted accordance with the electoral law.
How do you expect intelligent Obi lawyers to start proving that they won the same election that they said was conducted against the law.

It is either the INEC conducts the real election or declare him the winner based on the uncontestable results available.

Apc is simply running when no =one is chasing them, they should check themselves very well, their being chased by the evil that they committed.

Throwback:


You mean Obi would have continued with the policies of Emefiele that allowed a few access to dollars for round-tripping?

Has it stopped? 760/879.
He would gone into agriculture, stimulate economy, Confidence would have returned. Diaspora remittance would have increased, massive investment would have been the order of the day, alot would have had the sense of belonging that they won't have to consider japaing.
Obidients would have been on the street making sure things are done right instead of hypocritical Agbados that are only know hate, envy, bigotry and greediness thinking that winning presidency makes them immortal.

Where is the savings, what's the usd equivalent ?

Did he also promise to devalue the naira

Asswipemod:


That is why your Eze is still eating watery beans in Kirikiri till date.😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😆😆😆😆. Haters oshi!

Ordinary online beggar like you, get out

sreamsense:

Anambra: Home for All on paper; Ipob/esn keeps reminding every one that it is never home for all because hausa/fulani and other foreigners can be killed or get their properties destroyed at any unexpected time Ekpa gives order to Ipob/esn from foreign land

No place is safe in this country, blame your government for it and not your fellow human, we have bad people everywhere. Those that talk like you are foolish in their thinking. They believe that talking trash of another person makes them better. It doesn't. No serious person takes you serious

Asswipemod:


Mr man, Home for all is different from no man's land. Stop referring to Lagos as no man's land. If Anambra government and people wish to refer to their territory as that, that is their business. Lagos government and people have never in the past or present referred to Lagos as no man's land. So no eye chooking, long throated, senseless Igbo man or woman should come and be calling Lagos as no man's land. Why are you people always looking for trouble everywhere? See why nobody trusts you? You Sha want to assert your false and idiotic dominance.

Lagos is no man's land, go and kill yourself or better still attack anybody that tells you that you are dust and so you shall return.

flokii:
Typical pull him down syndrome.. because he failed woefully, he wants others to fail too.

There is nothing special in Abuja, just one tiny fraction of the big nation called Nigeria. Anyone who scores highest number of votes with highest number of states won is constitutionally fit to be President.

Pull who down ?
The simple truth is that, worth doing is worth doing fine.

fuckJones:
there is no place where says they rig his mandate.
He only paid lawyers to go and disqualify a winner of an election and not to go and argue that he won.
His minions like you have been here disturbing us with stolen mandate stories.

Many foolish people on NL these days

BabaRamota1980:
Playing devil's advocate here.

Let us assume Court answers Obi's prayers, and Tinubu is disqualified on statutory grounds.

The next question will be is there anyone in the ranks below him who met statutory requirements.

Nobody did though.

Atiku did not meet 2/3 spread. He needed 25% in 24 States but he only got 25% in 21.

Obi performance was even less than Atiku's.

The disqualification of Tinubu will lead into a National political quagmire.

Courts will never cancel the election and ask for a re-run because that will also throw the sovereingty of Nigeria into a jeopardy. Who will Preside over Nigeria when you dissolve the Govt?

The court will therefore maintain status quo and leave Tinubu in place than to risk an irreversible adversity over the entire country.

Judgement in the petition will end up in Tinubu's victory. Obi has self-destroyed his followership and movement by shifting focus away from election and going into US forfeiture and academic qualification of his opponent. He can do those challenges in a civil court, election tribunal are about what happened on Feb 25th, not decades before, or weeks before.....specifically, FEB 25TH!

senate president will preside, in absent of that, Chief justice will

Scammers in Aso rock

fuckJones:
right thing to be done as how?
Kindly read the final addresses to the PEPT of
1. Tinubu/APC
2. Atiku/PDP
3. Obi/LP

Only one said "I know & admit that I didn't win but just DISQUALIFY the person who won and let there be a rerun between the 2nd and 3rd"
Just imagine

If you can show me where what you stated above was written in any of the aforementioned candidates submission. I will change your life for good

fuckJones:
I read the entire 42 pages of Obi’s written address 3 times and at no point in the address did Obi and his lawyers ATTEMPT to PROVE that they won the election. Their entire case was built on character assassination as a reason for cancellation of the election. What a shame!

-Obi wants Shettima’s disqualification
-Obi wants Tinubu’s disqualification.
-Obi wants the election cancelled because of IREV glitch.

Again, there was no point where Obi told the court that he WON the election and attempted to prove it. These are the facts!

INEC do not even have any prove to show that Tinubu won, hence, Atiku and PDP are saying that INEC said that they won in 21 states and also did not dispute that in their submission.
All Obi is wants is for the right thing to be done evil ones are criticizing him for asking

until I read this nonsense from him, I don't think old age is catching up on him

gabbytabby:
Petrol don start to land no NNPC monopoly anymore

God pass una wishing Nigeria bad.

What about exchange rate? Hypocrite!

4TFK:
Hausas/Fulanis made Tinubu presidency happen. They are with us in this journey of building a better Nigeria. It is you and your likes that are the threatening violence after your candidates was roundly defeated to a distant third

Typical!

westfield:
Gee stop using tribe because there are so many igbos who supported Tinubu and are still supporting him because they know Obi is a scam........its best you classify them as Obident or Obiidiots

Common sense is not common. Obi gbawa gi onu there, Tinubu is dealing with you and you still have the audacity to be calling Peter name just because he's Igbo.
By the way, Go and give your advice to the person that I quoted originally. You left the person to quote me because of same tribalism that you are pretending not to be a promoter of.

nairalanda1:


Well, considering that I backed subsidy removal in 2012....you can complain to other people, not me.




See how badly we have been run, oga? That was the last sentence in my previous comment to you.

Good monring.

The complain was never made to you, You got involved when you started defending Government and attributing our present predicament to 2012 forgetting that it takes a lot to keep economy stable.
Atleast during that time, rate of inflation was within range.
Let say tomorrow, the crude sells at 500usd per barrel, a litre of fuel will cost over N3k, hence worsen the already bad situation?
If removing the subsidy will free more fund for economy, why devalue the naira?
I read somewhere that black market rate touched 1000usd per naira.

Nothing wrong with subsidy if properly managed and the reason we elect leader is for them to help to manage our resources on 9ur behalf and any leader that can't manage and account for the resources entrusted on them is good for nothing.
Good morning

I don't even know why people are so sentimental, Anambra state slogan is Home For All and somehow similar to No man's land.
Maybe they should rather call home for all too?
No man's land is simple a pigeon version of it, even Oliver de Coque sang it in his song, A na-enwe obodo enwe.

Not court but Judges

nairalanda1:


We had sustained high income from oyel money, plus debt forgiveness from 2006 meant that our cumulative debt then was not too high.(we had borrowed some since 2006, but we also had some savings).



From 2014-2021, we had sustained low oil prices below 100 dollars, sometimes below 20-30 dollars...especially in 2015/16 and 2020/21.

Nigeria needs oil to be at $130 to have enough money. That's our fiscal breakeven oil price, and it is like that because of our large populaiton. (It is also a big reason why I consider the APC government a failure , as I do other past governments because they rely too much on oil and the oil price never favours us, therefore we got to diversify which they do not. And to be honest, it annoys me.).

As a reuslt we took loans to keep our heads above water. To the point that today, we are using 99% of our revenue to pay for debts. Debt management office literally is screaming at Tinubu not to borrow any more money, and IMF and World Bank are also on our case.

Even this recent increase in oil money did nothing. Debt has to be paid off first. It is a characteristic of oil rich countries. When the oil prices crash, the debt taken on to prevent losses is so high that a rise in oil prices (unless there is money put aside during times of plenty)...is usually swallowed up by the debt.

See how badly we are run, oga?

So we now agreed that our problem did not start from 2012, Jonathan wanted to remove subsidy then but this present government ganged up against it and the saving you are talking about was used to settle subsidy, meaning, everyone benefited from it?

Fast forward to 2023, subsidy is removed so that we can have more money to invest in education, health care and infrastructure, right? Why tax us more on school fees?


Exchange rate is been adjusted to get more naira for the government, right?
All the social benefits for the citizens have been withdrawn by the government to save more money for the government, right?

How come we are not hearing anything on measures taken by government to also cut down on their own personal spending?

nairalanda1:


What savings?

Reason why the APC government is removing subsides now is because...there isn't any money for nothing.

The time there would have been savings from subsidy removal was in 2012. Right now, we was using loans to pay for subsidy. It was that bad.

Why 2012?
In 2022 Russia Ukraine war drove the crude to over 120uss per barrel, what did APC achieve with it?
If you employ two staff to work for you, one is making 1m dollars a month and spending 800k dollars and the other is making 400k usd in a month and spending 500k dollars by borrowing extra 100k dollars , who would you keep?

Come out of this lazy and the most irrational way of reasoning.

Where is the submission?

Sharpsharp00123:
mugu

I am a certified engineer n besides I don beg u for money before or na Igbo dey feed me cos na Igbo dey feed d whole world

Ipob miscreant like u

Engineers don't reason like you.
Engineers don't have time for mushroom tribal chants.
You are nothing but an online miscreant. Go get a life

Sharpsharp00123:
we challenge u all to try that rubbish

It’s u igbos attitude that anytime u lose u will want to scatter everything, just try any rubbish like that endsars massacre hoax

what about Hausa and other tribes?
You are really a coward.
Someone will slap you and the next person you mention is Igbo

Adblg0610:
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is running market economy with little government intervention , allowing private ownership/ market forces to determine all business decisions concerning how a business is run.
This type of economy leads to greater efficient allocation of scarce resources, productivity and innovation.
It’ll ultimately free up resources for government to[b] fund education[/b],health, transportation, agriculture and social investments for the benefit of the down trodden masses

What about his salary and that of the legislators?
What are they doing with our taxes and resources?
Have you seen the new school fees for the unity school?

Philgafauto:
Even though i knew this was the end of the road legally for Peter Obi since i saw Wole Olanipekun's written address, i expected more from Peter Obi's lawyers. While i may be a junior colleague of theirs, i am not happy with the quality of the brief. The address lacks coherence, logical flow and is filled with grammatical errors.

I sure will not add that kind of low quality written address to my library. I wont say more than that.

We await the just dismissal of the petition. I urge any interested person to compare and contrast the quality of Wole Olanipekun's written address to the filed by Peter Obi's lawyer. Let the difference in logic, flow, clarity and coherence be the decider.

I wish Peter Obi well. He has tried but, legally, this is an anticlimax to the expected legal fireworks from his lawyers. I am disappointed.

Have a nice weekend evreybody.

Go back and read the gibberish you have up there for lots of grammatical and spelling errors. How would you know a good grammar when you too can not write correctly?