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.