Pay compensation for school takeover or lose it, court tells Akwa Ibom govt

44 Laws of Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria, 2000 to be paid adequate compensation for the acquisition, taking over and operation of Christian Secondary School, Afia Etoi, by the 1st and 2nd defendants,” the court ruled.

An Akwa Ibom State High Court in Uyo has given the state government three months to “assess and pay adequate compensation” for taking over a private school or return it to its original owners.“That at the expiration of the said three months from the date of this judgement, if the 2nd defendant fails to assess and pay adequate compensation to the plaintiffs for the acquisition, take-over and operation of the school, the 2nd defendant shall, by an order of perpetual injunction, hereby be restrained by herself or her agents from further use and operation of the school, the subject matter of the suit,” the court stated.