Residents and property owners at NICON Town Estate in Lekki have asked a Lagos State High Court to reject the originating summons filed by Harris Dredging Limited and Nicon Town Management Company (NTMC).
They prayed for a full trial in a NICON town land battle to allow full pleadings and oral evidence, and to determine whether the suit should proceed by originating summons or be converted to a writ of summons for a full trial.
In the suit, the defendants comprising the Incorporated Trustees of the NICON Town Residents and Plot Owners’ Association and 14 individual homeowners told the court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square that the claimants’ chosen procedure was fundamentally unsuitable for a dispute steeped in allegations of fraud, conflicting documents, disputed authority and competing historical claims to the land.
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