individuals contrary to the signed Memorandum of
Understanding and misappropriated the proceeds. He
said the 1st Defendant did not inform him or his wife
before he started selling portions of the plot secretly and
converting the proceeds. He said no clause of the
agreement empowers him to sell anything on the land or
the land without the consent of the owners. He said he
discovered what 1st Defendant had done and confronted
him while expressing his displeasure at the betrayal of
trust. He said the 1st Defendant did abate on the sale of
the land. He also discovered that some material
supplied on the land were taken and used to build the 1st
Defendant’s personal house.
He stated that all the building that had been constructed
on the land were erected by those private individual
whom 1st Defendant sold portion of the plot of land to
without authority, that when he told the 1st Defendant to
stop work he responded that the land is no longer his
hence he has to write to Economic and Financial
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND KAYODE GABRIEL ADENIJI & 2ORS
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