The management of Empire Builders Limited, owners of Trassaco Valley Estate, has warned encroachers to stay off their lands.

This follows a long legal battle between Empire Builders Limited and Top Kings Enterprise Limited over disputed land in the Trassaco Valley area.

At the end of the legal battle, Top Kings were ordered by the court to stay within their 62-acre jurisdiction of which they were already in possession of and developed into Kings Cottage Estate.

The 62 acres did not include the Trassaco Valley Estate land.

However, following the High Court ruling, Top Kings, according to Empire Builders, has been encroaching on their lands using armed thugs to drive people out of their homes and demolishing their buildings.

Top Kings has justified this trespass on the land on the claim that the Court of Appeal set aside the Company’s right to remain in possession of the portions not decreed in favour of Top Kings and the Lands Commission, including Trassaco Valley Estate.

In a press statement, Empire Builders stated, “Shown on the judgment plan, Top Kings has destroyed several houses and other properties belonging to Empire Builders and rendered homeless hundreds of the workers and families of Empire Builders and its associated companies. Such activities having been carried out by land guards (often armed).”

According to Empire Builders, they have in their possession the Judgment Plan from the Supreme Court Ruling of the Empire Builders-Top Kings disputed land issue to prove their case.

They have thus unequivocally called on the Top Kings to desist from encroaching.