Eight years after, Supreme Court favours Calabar Community in land tussle
After nearly a decade of legal contention, the Supreme Court has delivered a landmark judgment in favour of the Ikot Ansa community (Nkonib) in Calabar Municipality, Cross River, affirming their ownership of a disputed parcel of land.
In Appeal No. SC/CV/295/2021, the apex court unanimously dismissed the appeal filed by Ntoe Ededem Okon Ayito, bringing finality to a protracted land tussle that has passed through all levels of Nigeria’s judicial system.
The panel of Justice including Uwani Musa Abba Aji (Lead Justice), Mohammed Salawa, Stephen Adah, and Abubakar Sadik Umar, upheld the earlier decision of the Court of Appeal, which found that the appellant, Ayito, failed to sufficiently prove his title to the land based on traditional history as originally pleaded.
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