Court Allows Cocoa Allotees In Cross River To Work Till May 6

Cross River High Court presided over by Justice Amajama Enenji has extended an injunction stopping The Cross River State Government from evicting allottees from government-owned cocoa plantations.

Enenji gave the injunction on Tuesday when the court sat in Effraya, Etung Local Government Area of Cross River State. It’s on record that the government of Prof Ben Ayade had moved to evict the allottees, which current administration of Bassey Otu wanted to uphold.

In suit No.HE/16/2024 between Mr. Charles Mgbe, and other allottees of 1,415 hectares of cocoa plots, the plaintiffs dragged the state government to court over the eviction order.

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The court ruled that the allottees should be allowed to continue to work in their cocoa farms till May 6, 2024, allowing the allottees the grace to work pending the period that a motion for interlocutory injunction will be moved.

Their counsel, Mba Ukweni, SAN, argued that the plots of the plantations were genuinely allocated to his clients within the ambit of the law, and were in order to continue with work on their farms. The case was adjourned following agreement by lawyers of the claimant Mba Ukweni (SAN), and I.I Eval Esq who held brief for W. S. Ogar, counsel to the defendant.