- 12 5.2.4 Accordingly, the case was thus suspended until November 26, 2015. The
hearing did not take place on the assigned date and the case was reassigned for
January 20, 2016.
5.2.5. Finally, at the call of the case on March 14, 2016, all parties and their
respective counsel were present and the Defendant brought to the Court’s
attention that it did not oppose the application for adjournment to file its
processes; the Plaintiff did not oppose the application for adjournment, and the
Court granted the request and adjourned the case to May 11, 2016 for hearing.
5.2.6. Later on that very same day after the convening of the court, the
Defendant filed a Motion for Extension of Time (Document number 2) along
with its Statement of Defense (Document number 3). Both of these document
were served on the Plaintiff on April 04, 2016.
5.2.7. These are all the pleadings in the case; in other words, the Plaintiff did
not file a Reply to the Defendant’s Defense.
5.3.
DEFENDANT’S STATEMENT OF DEFENSE
SAVE AND EXCEPT AS HEREINAFTER SPECIALLY ADMITTED, the
Defendant denies each and every material allegation of fact contained in the
Statement of claim as if same were herein set out and traversed seriatim:
1.
The defendant denies paragraphs 1, ii, iii, iv, v, vii and viii of the
Plaintiff/applicants claim.
2.
In specific answer to the Plaintiff’s averment, the Defendant states that
one Noel, who was arrested in connection with this case of impersonation of
being a staff of DSS mentioned the names of the Plaintiff/Applicant together
with that of one Shola, whom the DSS were long before trying to arrest for the
same offence of impersonation.
3.
That during the cause of the interrogation the said NOEL, the name of the
Plaintiff was mentioned, wherein he was alleged to have known one SHOLA
(suspect) in person and his contact address which thus necessitated the arrest of
the Applicant.
4.
The Plaintiff/Applicant was arrested on lawful grounds; as his arrest was
made in furtherance of investigation by the DSS to ascertain his level of
involvement in the impersonation case and to enable the DSS arrest one
SHOLA (who is still at large).