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By Yusuf Salihu Sansani, Jalingo
A State High Court in Jalingo Taraba State has served an interim injunction restraining a third Class traditional ruler the Kwantse of Kwararrafa Chiefdom John Agbu Tsokwa from parading himself as the third class Chief of the Chiefdom, stopping him from further appointments of districts and village heads and declaring all the appointments he made in the past as null and void.
The injunction followed a case filed by the village head of Kwararrafa Ibrahim Jauro Isa against the Kwantse and five others Adamu Sa’idu, Hamman Adama Haram, Bello Maiwada, Alhaji Kyau Sabongida, Ibrahim Aliyu and Mohammed Seyo whose the Kwantse recently appointed as district heads in his domain praying the court to past the interim injunction on the Kwantse and nullify all the appointments on the grounds that the Kwantse John Agbu Tsokwa in the first place is not an indigene of Taraba State and so not an indigene of Kwararrafa, that non of his grandparents, parents or himself that held the position of even a ward head anywhere and so cannot be the Chief of Kwararrafa by any means.
Briefing Journalists shortly after the hearing Counsel to the plaintiff Benson Wassa said his team were satisfied on side
of the court but not satisfied with the attitude of the respondents who always evade service that the case is mentioned but in law serving letters to the defendants is very crucial to the matter. “Although the matter has been called we have to take a date to ensure that the second to the sixth defendants have been served”. On his part Counsel to the defendants O S Yamma said “we have not heard the substantive case what was heard today was the hearing of the motion just been told by the Counsel to the plaintiff they have an application of substituted service
an experte motion he has no business with and expressed dissatisfaction with the interlocurtory injunction against his client. In his comments a member of the traditional families in Gassol Chiefdom Hamman Tukur Kawu Hammanjam expressed happiness with the court proceedings hoping that justice will prevail at the end of the proceedings. Justice Nuhu S. Adi who presided over the case and granted the interlurcurtery injunction against the Kwantse adjourned the case to October 31st, 2022 for continuation.
