An Oyo State High Court sitting in Iseyin, Oyo State of Nigeria has placed a restraining Order on SKECC Nigeria Ltd. and three of her Directors namely: Umar Yahaya, Daye Shi, and Jilong Liu.
Justice E.A Taiwo restrained the defendants from prospecting for solid minerals on the land sequel to a suit filed by Agboola Farms Limited seeking the order of court to restrain the Chinese company from turning the farmlands into minerals prospecting field.
When the suit came up on Wednesday July 17, counsels to the Claimant, Kazeem A. Gbadamosi SAN, and Mutalubi Ojo Adebayo SAN, appearing with Oluwaseun Ayodele and Ridwan Sanusi, moved the court to grant an order of interim injunction restraining the 1st-4th Defendants, their agents, servants, privies, representatives including their workmen, staff, or anybody whatsoever claiming through or under them from exploring, excavating, prospecting for mineral resources and/or moving equipment into the land of the Claimant and further committing any act of trespass on the Claimant’s land situate and being at KM 8, Kishi/Ilorin Road, Sooro Village, Kishi, Irepo Local Government of Oyo State.
The court, granting the Order sought by the claimant also ordered the claimant to serve the processes filed in the suit on the defendants via by pasting them on the Defendants’ Address at No. 12, Bissau Street, Wuse Zone 6, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory.
Justice Taiwo adjourned until Wednesday, 24th of July, 2024 for Hearing of the Motion for interlocutory injunction.
