Purchasing clients may even be liable when assuming residential tenants who were previously
charged illegal rents, such as amounts above the guideline increase or resulting from increases at a rate more frequent than every 12 months.
Prof. Dankofa, among other things, in suit KDH / KAD / 236 / 2018 is praying the court to «declare that the action of the respondents (Kaduna State Government and Kaduna Geographic Information Service, KADGIS) in arrogating to themselves the power to punitively sanction the Applicants (Hunkuyi and his Company, Muna Investment Ltd) property, even if the Applicants were purportedly in default of payment of either ground
rent or land use
charge or for any other reason constitute a gross violation of Applicant Fundamental Human Right guaranteed under section 43 (1) and 46 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and therefore
illegal, unconstitutional, null and void.»
This section says that if a landlord has gotten away with an
illegal rent,
illegal rent increase, or other
illegal charge, and you have not caught it and filed an application against it within one year of the date of the
illegal charge, it becomes... legal!