Benin High Court Grants Uyiekpen Ologbosere's Claim to 200.309 Hectare Land at Obagie Nevbosa





A Benin High Court presided over by the Honourable Justice Geraldine Imadegbelo has delivered a consent judgment in favour of the Claimants, Uyiekpen Ologbosere in the case of Portcall lnternational Farms Ltd versus The Governor of Edo State & 20 others in Suit No. B/672/2023.
 
The trial judge in the consent judgment set aside all the Certificates of Occupancy issued by Edo State Governor iin favour of all persons on any portion of the land while he upheld the Certificate of Occupancy issued to Uyiekpen Ologbosere and his company - Portcall lnternational Farms Ltd - by the Governor over the entire 200.309 hectares of land lying and situate at Obagie Nevbosa.


The presiding judge also granted an order of perpetual injunction restraining the the Edo State Government, its agents or any other person claiming through them or howsoever described from further trespassing on any portion of the 200.309 hectares of land more particularly marked and delineated in survey plan No.SEA/ED/97 bordered pink and attached to the Certificate of Occupancy No. EDSR 14764, which land is lying and situate in Obagie-Nevbosa Village, Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State. 

By the consent judgment the court granted authority to the Claimants to retrieve possession of the entire land and evict any person who strays into any portion of the land. 
The court however, did not award any financial damages to the Claimants. 

With this judgment, whoever goes into the said land or any portion thereof is in contempt of the judgment and stands the risk of going to prison.

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