The Kano State Urban Planning and Development Authority (KNUPDA) and the State Bureau for Land Management have been restrained from further blocking, erecting or continue to erect a temporary or permanent structure on any part of Ta’ambu and Bayajidda streets of Kantin Kwari market pending the hearing and determination of motion on notice.
The order was granted by a Kano State High Court presided by Justice Suleiman Baba Namallam.
The court also restrained the respondents severally or jointly or any person whomsoever from doing or allowing to be done anything that will obstruct or tamper with the applicants’ rights of easement into or out of their landed properties in Ta’ambu and Bayajidda street of kantin Kwari market, pending the hearing and determination of motion on notice.
The interim order was granted upon an ex- parte application by counsel to the applicants’ Barrister Abba Hikima.
The plaintiffs/ applicants in the suit are Alhaji Shehu Bukar Makoda, Alhaji Yusuf Alasan and Alhaji Auwalu Buhari, Alhaji Kabiru Ismaila, Alhaji Salihu Baita and Incorporated Trustees of Kwari Small and Medium Scale Traders Association, Kano.
Also, the defendants/respondents are Raz Construction and Technical Limited, Kano state Urban Planning and Development Authority (KNUPDA) and Kano state Bureau for Land Management.
