Court evicts Nigeria Immigration boss for non-payment of rent
Category: Nigerian National News
A Senior District Court in Lafia, Nasarawa State, has evicted the state
comptroller of the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, Baba Mamoda, for
defaulting in his rent. The court gave the ruling in a case brought
before it by Nanshin Jambu, a Lafia-based widow with seven children. Ms.
Jambu was represented in the court during the trial by a relation,
Manji Simeon, who also supervised the eviction of the NIS boss on
Wednesday. Acting on a complaint brought before it by Mr. Simeon, the
court noted that the Nasarawa State NIS boss erred by not paying his
rent to the plaintiff as agreed that the NIS would renew tenement on the
property every January.
In giving the judgment, the judge, Patrick Epu, cited the provisions of
Section 11(3) and 5(3) of the Nasarawa State Recovery Law, 2002. The
copy of the judgment obtained by PREMIUM TIMES shows that the court also
awarded a fine of N200,000 against the NIS boss for using the widow’s
property located along Al-Munir Street, by Shendam Road, Lafia.
Subsequently, court officials armed with the court order stormed the
property, led by the plaintiff and moved out household items and other
properties belonging to the Immigration boss. While his property was
being moved out of the house, Mr. Mamoda was said to have invited armed
officials of the NIS to monitor the exercise. The witness said an old
Peugeot van was hired to convey the evicted property to a nearby
apartment which is still under construction. Mr. Momoda was said to have
cautioned court officials and the plaintiff against damaging any of his
property in the course of the eviction. After moving everything out of
the property, the plaintiff told journalists that the eviction was
complete, but added that the NIS boss failed to pay the N200, 000 as
ordered by the court. For falling to pay the fine, he said the court has
taken custody of a pick-up van belonging to the NIS. A towing van
brought in by the court was seen towing an NIS branded Toyota Hilux van
with registration number IS02NS at about 1.10 p.m. When asked to
comment, the state NIS comptroller said he was “not competent to speak
on that.”
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