An Uhunmwonde Customary Court has restrained Elvis Ewemade and five others otherwise known as the defendants from further trespassing on land measuring one thousand feet bý one thousand feet situated in Igue Uwangue pending the determination of the suit.

The order was made by the presiding president, I. O. Osawaru Mrs. and two other members, Dora Asemota Mrs. and Kingsley Nwajie in an interim injunction to the Claimant in a suit between the acting Odionwere of Igue Uwangue and the elders against the first defendant, Elvis Ewemade and five others, who the first defendant allegedly sold the land to.

The president and members of the Customary Court after hearing the motion presented by the Counsel to Igue Uwangue, Godwin Oaikhena said the restraining order became necessary pending the determination of the suit number UACC/96/2024, which will come up on the 27th of November.

However, the court granted the Claimant and applicant prayer of a restraining order on the first defendant, Elvis Ewemade and others, their agents, servants privies and workmen from further entering, bulldozing, construction and erection of any structure on the Claimant communal land pending the determination of the motion on notice.

The restraining order was also extended to the first defendant his agents and others from further sales of any portion or parcel of the communal land in the Claimant and applicant community Igue Uwangue in Uhunmwonde Local Government Area of Edo State, unilaterally without the consent and due authority of the Odionwere and the Council of elders pending the hearing of the motion on notice.

The presiding president and the members also ordered that the defendants be served with copies of the order of the court along with the motion on notice coming up on the 27th of November.

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