OK, on a low note but still in high spirits. The court hearing yesterday went not so well. Francis went in to get the Judges' verdict, but apparently the judge was not there...He was still on vacation or leave from last year the 17th of December. Francis tried to see if another Judge could take our case, or if the Judge who went on leave had left the case to another Judge dealing with land issues, but to his dissapointment, nothing of that nature had taken place. He approach the court clerk for some more advice but the clerk assured him that it was all upto to the Judge to make the ruling because he was with all our documents and evidence papers prooving the land was acquired in the right way. So if we were to give another Judge, the case would take longer still. Options are; we either write another letter invoking the Judge to put a restraining order because construction is still taking place on our land. They have had student intake at the beginning of this year, this week they put out an advertisiment in the local papers for employing teachers. Have in mind the building is not even finished and it already has pupils admmitted.
Appeal the case if it will not be in our favour, but accordiing to Francis the case is on our side because we have presented all documents proving that we have legal right to the land and the other side has not produced a single document to proove their grounds. Their strategy is that they have this going so that parents who have already admitted their kids to the school, put up a demostration against our bid.
We wait for next week, maybe the judge will remember that he has this case to deal with and he has to know that we as MITS community are not letting him off the hook that easy, he has a force to reckon with!
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Francis should speak with someone at International Justice Mission. www.ijm.org They work all across the world dealing with modern day slavery issues and land battles. They work with lawyers, investigators, etc. Please take a look at it!
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