ii.
iii.
SPECIAL DAMAGES in the amount of N100,089,140.00 (One
Hundred Million, Eighty Nine Thousand, One Hundred and Forty
Naira) only, being the total cost of building 3 new houses of the same and
similar attributes with the 3 houses destroyed by the Respondents
including household items, furniture, electronics, clothing, certificates,
landed documents, receipts, farm tools, my traditional Chieftaincy beads
and regalia, one complete small scale palm oil press plant, cash crops and
orchards, indeed the entire personal property of the Applicants’.
EXEMPLARY DAMAGES based upon the extreme ill will,
recklessness, insensitivity, malice and deprivation of Applicants’
fundamental rights exhibited by the Respondents’ against the Applicants’
in the sum of N500,000,000.00 ( Five Hundred Million Naira) only.
The Plaintiff in order to establish his claim, presented three witnesses who gave oral
testimony.
The Plaintiff witness 1 was the 1st Plaintiff himself who after adopting his witness
statement on oath narrated how on the 19th of December, 2012, an agency called the
Imo security network with armed Policemen and Soldiers arrested his son, one
Obinna Kasarachi Onwuham. The Security agents came in the company of one Paul
Obieze Amaliri and one Marshall Ifeanyi Akujinwa (alias Dauda).
The witness further alleged no one informed him of the reason for the visit but that
one of the Security officers stated that his son is suspected of being a kidnapper. He
also stated that they entered his house, the part allotted to his son, Obinna, removed
all the household item from the house and burnt them and at the same time
demolished The House. They also demolished all other structures within the
compound, including economic trees.
They took away the son and till date he does not know his where about. According
to him the demolition took place in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
The second Plaintiff’s witness who identified himself as Justus Eromonsele is a
qualified Quantity Surveyor.
He stated his qualifications as Bachelor of Science Quantity Surveying from the
Ahmadou Bello University Zaria, Nigeria and an Associate member of the Nigerian
Institute of Quantity Surveyors. He stated that he was contracted to evaluate the
buildings of the Plaintiff that was demolished. He evaluated same and submitted a
report signed by him. He identified the report with his signature. The Report was
tendered in evidence and marked as Exhibit 1.
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