By Correspondent in Ilorin
A Magistrate’s court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara state capital on Thursday, ordered the tenant occupying Guest chalet of the Kwara State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Alhaji Abdulfatai Ajibola, to vacate the facility with immediate effect.
The court also ordered that the defendant should evacuate all his property and hand over possession to the Kwara State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
The court ,according to the judgement delivered by magistrate Abdulmalik Magaji, also ordered the defendant to pay to NUJ, N40,000, being the cost of electricity he inccured while in possession of the property.
The court said the council was in order by all its earlier notices of “rent liquidation” and subsequent “termination of lease “agreement with the defendant, saying they werere now “tenant at will.”
The Reporters recalls that the council had in November 2019, dragged Alhaji Fatai Ajibola, who is the tenant managing NUJ Guest chalet, Bar and Restaurant, to court for falling to hand over possession after expiration of his lease agreement .
The Counsel to NUJ, Barrister Ismail, had submitted before the court that all the action, pieces of evidence and the documents tendered by his client were in line with the law.
The counsel, however, prayed the court to grant all the prayers of the petitioner and the court granted them.
The matter had lingered on for more than one year due to shutting of courts in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic and industrial action embarked upon by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN).
