Abuja Municipal Area Council in the name of Fine Trust
Academy. Abuja Municipal Area Council allocated plot SS1
Jikwoyi Extension III in favour of Fine Trust Academy. PW4
testified that he paid all the necessary land fees and he was
issued with titled deed plan of Plot SS1 Jikwoyi Extension III.
Then PW4 testified as follows:“Then sometimes in 2005, Mr. Patrick Pillah the 1st
Defendant met me in my school in which at that time
I had taken possession of the land and I was farming
and that he was informed that I am in possession of
title documents of SS1 and I told the 1st Defendant
“yes” and why the question?
PW4 testified further as follows: - “the 1st Defendant then told
me that the land belongs to him and that he has all the title
documents.” He stated also:-“ He then showed me photocopies
of his own title on the land and requested to see my own.” PW4
stated that the 1st Defendant told him in his own interest, he
should return the land papers and he should not go to that land
again. PW4 testified that few weeks after the encounter with
the 1st Defendant, he was invited by the DPO Jikwoyi Police
station that he trespassed into somebody’s land. PW4 narrated
his ordeal with the police and was eventually arraigned before
the Magistrate Court and detained at prison custody.
Now from the testimonies of PWs 1,2,3 and 4 it is crystal clear
that by exhibits 7, 7(a) and 7(b), plot SS1 Jikwoyi Extension III
was allocated to Fine Trust Academy in 1997.It is also clear
from the testimonies of PWS1 and 2, who were staff and
colleagues in Abuja Municipal Area Council with the 1st and 2nd
Defendants confirmed that the plot SS1 Jikwoyi Extension III
was charted in favour of Fine Trust Academy. Especially, PW2
surveyor Michael Ola Charity between 2004 to about February,
2011, she was the Resident surveyor in charge of all surveys
and mappings. And PW2 testified that the 1st Defendant
brought an application for processing of his title deed plan
wherein she followed due process whether the name of the
person was on the list. According to PW2, she discovered that
the land had been charted in 2005 in favour of Fine Trust
Academy and title deed processed and collected by Fine Trust
Academy. PW2 testified that because the plot can only be
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