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High Court of Kano State, Kano Judicial Division

The plaintiff, who was an employee of the Ministry of Works and Survey, built a house for himself at Wak. The first defendant, who was his superior officer, had received information that the plaintiff had used some Ministry of Works material and labour on the house. The first defendant then questioned the plaintiff, who admitted using only some wooden road pegs. Thereupon the first defendant instructed his junior officer, the second defendant, to instruct a bulldozer operator, the third defendant, to destroy the house. These instructions were carried out. The plaintiff therefore instituted this action for trespass. The defendants however pleaded that under the Land Tenure Law the plaintiff had no right of possession because as a native of Kwara State he was a non-native of Kano State and needed, but had not obtained, the Commissioner's consent to his purchase of the right to occupy that land; secondly, that the first defendant had, by virtue of the powers of his commissioner, a title or right to enter that land; and thirdly, that the plaintiff was not even the owner of the house. Held; (1) that mere possession, which the plaintiff had, was enough to found an action in trespass;