* Seeks N850m compensation
By Alex Enumah in Abuja
A lagos-based artisan, Friday Okolo, has dragged Midwestern Oil and Gas Company to a Federal High Court in Abuja, over an alleged fraudulent acquisition of his land for oil exploration.
The plaintiff, in the suit filed on his behalf by his lawyer, Nnamdi Ebo, is claiming a whopping sum of N855 million compensation from the oil company for allegedly trespassing on his land without his authority.
In the suit, which has one Chief Sunday Ochonogor and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as defendants, the plaintiff is praying the Federal High Court for an Order of Perpetual Injunction restraining the oil company from paying annual rent, pledges, dues and other payments to any other person except himself, being the rightful owner of the land upon which the firm is operating.
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