….As Ondo Court awards N7million damages against Company.
The Ondo State High Court (Akure Judicial Division) has delivered judgment in favour of Mr. Kayode Ekun and two others, against Jomav Home & Properties Nigeria Limited over 5.5 acres of land within a larger expanse of land sold to the Company by Chief Olatubosun Miller (Olu of Olokuta Community).
In his judgment delivered on 30th May, 2025, the presiding judge, Justice D.I Kolawole held that the Claimants Owners of the land and declared Jomav Home & Property Nigeria Limited a “trespasser” on the land. The court further awarded Seven Million (N7,000,000) as General damages against the Company, directing that the said sum be paid to the Claimants.
Mr. Kayode Ekun, Mr. Boluwaji Ekun and Mr. Oluwayemi Ekun who sued for themselves and on behalf of Late Mr. Samuel Ekun’s family of Aponmu instituted Suit No. AK/201/2022 through their lawyer, Barr. Jerry Bukunmi Adeyogbe, Esq., against Jomav on 30/05/2022 for the trespass committed by the Company on their land.
Bukunmi Adeyogbe, the Counsel to the Claimants who spoke to newsmen hailed the judgment as “epochal”.
He also advised that every subscribers and/or prospective subscribers to any land ownership scheme should conduct proper Due Diligence before investing in lands or buildings being developed by such Company.
Adekola Olawoye, SAN, Counsel to the Defendant was not in court that day for comment but represented during the judgment by a lawyer, Mr Ayo Ayeni Esq.
