Court halts quarry operations in Abuja residential area – TheNigerialawyer

The Federal Capital Territory High Court in the Jabi area of
Abuja has stopped the operations of a Turkish quarrying company,
Zeberced Limited, in a residential area in Kubwa, Bwari Area
Council of the Federal Capital Territory.

Issuing an interlocutory injunction against the company, Justice
Charles Agbaza restrained the firm from continuing to constitute
“nuisance” with its extraction, blasting, drilling, cutting and
mining activities at the quarry located within a residential area
of Kubwa.

In the ruling delivered on November 19, 2019, a copy of which
was made available to our correspondent on Tuesday, the judge
directed that the restraining order would subsist pending the
hearing and determination of the suit instituted against the firm
by a resident of the area, Mr Moses Anyaoha.

Ayaoha, who is the Chairman of the Association of Residents of
Kubwa Extension Relocation 2, had filed the suit marked,
FCT/HC/CV/1286/19, urging the court to stop the company’s
operations in the area, because of the risks they constituted to
him and other members of the community.

After hearing the plaintiff’s lawyer, Mr Godwin Attai, while on
November 3, the judge made the “order of interlocutory injunction
restraining the defendant or its agents from further constituting
nuisance against the claimant’s property by way of extracting,
blasting, drilling, cutting and mining of rocks pending the hearing
and determination of the substantive suit.”

The judge adjourned hearing in the suit till February 3,
2020.