Grandscope Construction Limited has allegedly violated an order of the Gombe State High Court presided over by Justice Fatima Musa restraining the company from further entering or commencing constructions on the property belonging to Emir General Integrated Limited, pending the hearing and determination of motion on notice.
The ex-parte order was granted by the court upon hearing the application by Counsel to the Applicant, Barrister Sulaiman Abdurraheem, dated 14th November, 2024 in the case with Suit No: GM/116/2024.
The Order reads: “The defendant whether by itself, agents, workmen, labourers, privies, employers, or representatives, are restrained from further entering, erecting structure and/or commencing constructions work on the property subject of this suit pending the hearing to the motion on notice filed in this case.”
Speaking on the failure of the company to comply with the retraining order after sitting on Monday, Barrister Abdurraheem, the lawyer to the plaintiff said they had filed an application in that regard, for committal to commit their directors to prison (custodial centre) for failure to comply with order of court.
According to him, the application is pending before the court.
Speaking further, he said “Ordinarily in civilised clime when a matter is filed all parties has to stay action that is what is to called rule of law.
“But they refused to comply with even the interim order restraining them we got an application for committal to commit their directors to prison (custodial centre) for failure to comply with order of court. The application is pending,” he said.
On the day’s sitting, he said that the court sat and heard an application from the state government to be joined as parties as defendants.
He said that the court adjourned that it would be giving its ruling on the application and adjourned the matter till March 20 for ruling on the application for joinder (Ministries of Works, Justice).
He said that he had no issue with the application by the state government to be part of the defendants, “the only issue was the application to set aside the order we got before order for interim injunction which was our only objection ordinarily we are not opposing the application to join us.
“We are opposing their application to set aside the earlier order we got interim injunction to restrain them from continuing development there,” he said.
