Apo Resettlement Market Dispute: Court asks parties to respect stop work order

A Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court sitting successful Maitama District has urged parties progressive successful the Apo Resettlement Market quality to obey an interlocutory injunction restraining further enactment connected the tract pending the determination of the substantive suit, informing that violators hazard attracting the wrath of the court.

The tribunal had earlier, connected April 15, 2025, ordered each parties progressive successful the project, Dr Shuaibu Musari, archetypal defendant, Manillah Integrated Partners Ltd, archetypal claimant and AMAC Investment Development Company, 2nd defendant, to cease each operation activities pending the determination of the matter.

The bid was subsequently served connected the parties and enforced astatine the tract by tribunal bailiffs, who pasted the directive and marked the premises with a “Stop Work” announcement connected April 28, 2025.

However, reports earlier the tribunal indicated that Manillah Integrated Partners Ltd and AMAC Investment Development Company allegedly continued operation activities contempt the subsisting tribunal order, prompting Dr Shuaibu Musari to initiate contempt proceedings against them.

At the resumed hearing, counsel to Dr Shuaibu Musari, the archetypal defendant, Barr Realwan Okpanachi, portion cross-examining Principal Witness 2, Hassan Ahmed Omale, drew the attraction of the presiding judge, Justice Yusuf Halilu, to ...