BY VINCENT UJUMADU

AWKA – RESIDENTS of Anambra State Government–owned Real Estate in Awka, have dragged the state Attorney- General and Commissioner for Justice and the state Head of Service, HOS, to the Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu over alleged threat by the government to eject them.

An Awka High Court presided over by Justice Mike Onochie had in a judgment delivered in October 2008, granted the counter-claim of the respondents that the applicants should relinquish their right over the houses.

Seven residents of the estate, who for themselves and others recently served with quit notices as a result of the judgment, are praying the court for an order of injunction restraining the respondents, their agents, workers, servants, privies, including one Vincent Nkwonta, said to be the contractor hired by government, from carrying out the ejection or demolishing the estate as being speculated.

They also prayed the court for an order restraining the respondents from collecting rents from them pending the hearing and determination of the appeal.

In an affidavit sworn to by one of the occupants, Elder C.C. Mbacci, they stated that they expended huge money in making the houses habitable, adding that they were given quit notices without waiting for the determination of an appeal they lodged against the judgment of the lower court.