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DeltaBachelor:
Hello guys, happy sunday to you all.

Quick one, I would like to know your thoughts concerning an issue in an apartment I rented here in Abuja early this year. It is a 2 bedroom , live-alone apartment (just my family) on a half plot of land with some bananas in front of it.

A couple of weeks ago, the landlord and caretaker called me to tell me that they wanted to send someone to come and check if the bananas are ripe for them to come and harvest it, which I vehemently refused.

Property Lawyers in the house and well-meaning Nairalanders, kindly advise on this situation before it escalates. I believe it is my right to have exclusive or sole possession of the property so long as my rent is still active. What's your take on this please? Am I wrong ? My children take care of these trees daily by watering and clearing the place. I feel this is wrong from the landlord to do that.

Sorry for the long write-up. Please advise

Cc: Seun

Zonefree:

All these do not make you the owner. The landlord planted the bananas.

You only rented a 2bedroom flat, you did not rent the trees around it.

If I'm the landlord, I'll arrest you for trespassing and theft.

adamma24:

You are not the owner of the banana...it belong to your landlord...it is his land...he planted it there...you only rented an apartment there does not make u the owner...

budaatum:
Tenant wants to reap what he never sowed.

DeltaBachelor:
I think you are being naive here. You should have asked who planted it. The last occupant did. Don't jump into conclusion please. You are obviously not a lawyer and your input isn't needed. I just want to know what the law says about that and not your own conclusion. Thank you

Zonefree:
The last occupant planted it and you want to claim ownership

Na your type dey die quick.

DeltaBachelor:
You will most definitely die b4 me for using that statement. Mark my words

Zonefree:
Coward stubborn tenant.

DeltaBachelor:
You will never know your right. That's why you are being taken for a ride anywhere you go. Oponu oshi. Maybe I even struck a nerve there sef. Na your type go get small piece of land and be using it to intimidate someone. Anuofia. I am attaching the image below so that other tenants can know they also have rights in Nigeria. Nonsense and ingredient

Zonefree:
The photo you posted, where is it written you have right to steal banana that is not yours?

Thief!

DeltaBachelor:
Educated illiterate. Try to do research instead of coming online to disgrace your family. Like I said earlier, I need the thought of a learned colleague (property lawyer) and not an Agbero like you that came across nairaland some years ago through Airtel free basics with your palasa symbian phone

Kongaone:
Oliver De Coque once sang that "flowers you planted in a rented house isn't yours when you're moving out of the house" not to talk of the one you didn't plant. Pls leave your landlord's banana alone, there is a reason why it is called economic tree, except if it was contained in your agreement as exclusively yours.

Kongaone:
Op how come you're Bachelor in Delta (from your monicker) and have kids that can water bananas in Abuja?

Abeg na joke I dey ooo, I see as you dey change am for everybody here since.

DeltaBachelor:
. Nor reason am jare. It didn't happen to me per se but a female friend in Abuja. I advised her to seek the advice of a legal counsel since she signed an agreement with the landlord before renting the place that she would "solely" be in charge of taking care of the place, repairs and all and the landlord can only come for inspection. After like 8 to 9 months of her hard labour calling aboki and labourers to work on the land she is using for farming, someone will now come and say because it is his land, the harvest is his. That's not legal na. What happens to the time, money and effort she has put in ? I just feel the landlord is very greedy. This is just one tree holding just one bunch of banana and some tomatoes , pawpaw and pepper she planted. Why is he adamant on just the bananas ? Why didn't he talk about the tomatoes and pepper ? This is also very wrong. I expected him to ask to share it and not claim it to be his alone

DeltaBachelor:
You will never know your right. That's why you are being taken for a ride anywhere you go. Oponu oshi. Maybe I even struck a nerve there sef. Na your type go get small piece of land and be using it to intimidate someone. Anuofia. I am attaching the image below so that other tenants can know they also have rights in Nigeria. Nonsense and ingredient

Kongaone:
I wanted to suggest your last paragraph but thank God you already mentioned it. Advice her to share harvest with landlord. In Naija constitution if you plant an Economic tree on a man's land he doesn't have right to clear it just like that without compensation and likewise its expected you pay for the plot for the period of your planting if the landlord request. So you see its a 50/50 thing.

NB: Gbagyi man no dey joke with his economic tree ooo. Them dey even fight government. They can go diabolical,

DeltaBachelor:
Hello guys, happy sunday to you all.

Quick one, I would like to know your thoughts concerning an issue in an apartment I rented here in Abuja early this year. It is a 2 bedroom , live-alone apartment (just my family) on a half plot of land with some bananas in front of it.

A couple of weeks ago, the landlord and caretaker called me to tell me that they wanted to send someone to come and check if the bananas are ripe for them to come and harvest it, which I vehemently refused.

Property Lawyers in the house and well-meaning Nairalanders, kindly advise on this situation before it escalates. I believe it is my right to have exclusive or sole possession of the property so long as my rent is still active. What's your take on this please? Am I wrong ? My children take care of these trees daily by watering and clearing the place. I feel this is wrong from the landlord to do that.

Sorry for the long write-up. Please advise

Cc: Seun