Taraba high court dismisses suit challenging Kwararafa chiefdom’s jurisdiction

A High Court sitting successful Jalingo, Taraba State, connected Thursday dismissed a suit challenging the territorial jurisdiction of the Kwararafa Chiefdom successful Gassol Local Government Council of the state.

Delivering judgment, Justice Silas Haruna of the Taraba State High Court struck retired the lawsuit connected the grounds that the plaintiffs failed to comply with a mandatory pre-action procedure.

The tribunal held that the plaintiffs did not contented a pre-action announcement to the defendants earlier filing the suit, a request for instituting ineligible enactment against a radical oregon organisation.

Justice Haruna upheld the arguments of the defence, noting that the nonaccomplishment to contented the announcement rendered the suit incompetent. He cited ineligible precedents, including Tukur vs Gongola State Government (1989) and Adeniyi vs Federal Government of Nigeria (1981), to enactment the ruling.

The suit, marked TRSJ/135/2024, was filed by Alhaji Mansur Mukaila and Comrade Haman Tukur against the Kwararafa Chiefdom and its Third Class Chief, Methuselah Adamu.

The plaintiffs had approached the tribunal done an originating summons, seeking clarificatio...