A Kano High Court presided over by Justice Usman Naabba has granted a restraining order stopping the Federal Government from constructing a railway on landed properties at Kuyan Ta Inna Layout in Kano.
Justice Na’abba gave the order on Thursday, October 17.
The defendants in the suit are the Federal Ministry of Transport, the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, the Chief of Army Staff and the Inspector General of Police.
Others are the Director of the Department of State Security Services, the Kano State Commissioner of Police, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, and a businessman operating under a business name.
The applicants are 75 in number.
Briefing newsmen after the court session, counsel for the applicants, Umar Danbaito, said the applicants’ prayer was to restrain the respondents from trespassing, taking over, or erecting a railway on the applicants’ properties until the hearing of the motion on notice.
Danbaito said the court, presided over by Justice Naabba, granted the order restraining the respondents from meddling with or interfering in the peaceful possession of the applicants’ various landed properties at Kuyan Ta Inna layout in Kano.
The court adjourned the case to November 18, 2024.