Court bans developments on Ayi Mensah land
Gilbert Boyefio
14/09/2006
An Accra High Court has issued an injunction order on any developments on lands at Ayi Mensah, and ordered the police to arrest those who have defied an earlier order by the court and all those who attempt to do so.
Presiding, her Lordship Francesca Owusu Arhin, said an earlier interim injunction was issued because the court does not want what happened at Ablekuma, to happen at Ayi Mensah. It would be recalled that in 1998, two Police Officers were killed at Ablekuma over a land dispute.
The court issued the order when an application of contempt was brought before it, in a land dispute case involving the Plaintiffs, Samuel, Christopher and Mensah Oblie, for themselves and on behalf of the Asua We Family of Accra, and the Defendant, Tetteh Lancaster of Oyarifa, Accra.
Presenting the application for the order for contempt, Counsel for the plaintiffs, Yaw Oppong said after the court had issued an injunction for all developments to stop on the land in dispute, a third party has defied the order and is developing on the land.
He said when this came to his notice, they wrote to the District Commander of the Ghana Police Service at Oyarifa, to inform him of the case before the court and the interim injunction place on it, and requested the Police to assist them to halt all illegal activities on the land which are in direct contempt of the orders of the court.
Present at the court, to give credence to counsel's claim was Chief Inspector Martin Doudu of the Oyarifa Police Station. He told the court, that when he was informed by Counsel of the ongoing court action, he called the developers and warned them to stay away from the land, which they agreed to do. According to him, he had since not heard anything about the case again.
Counsel for the Defendant who was also not happy about the third party affair agreed with the request by the Counsel for the plaintiffs.
In the substantive case, the two parties are claiming ownership of a tract of land situated at Ayi Mensah and bounded on the North by the Ayi Mensah - Kweiman road.
The contempt case was adjourned until any of the parties is confirmed to know about or is aware of the development of the land by a third party. The substantive case was also adjourned to October 18, 2006.
14/09/2006
An Accra High Court has issued an injunction order on any developments on lands at Ayi Mensah, and ordered the police to arrest those who have defied an earlier order by the court and all those who attempt to do so.
Presiding, her Lordship Francesca Owusu Arhin, said an earlier interim injunction was issued because the court does not want what happened at Ablekuma, to happen at Ayi Mensah. It would be recalled that in 1998, two Police Officers were killed at Ablekuma over a land dispute.
The court issued the order when an application of contempt was brought before it, in a land dispute case involving the Plaintiffs, Samuel, Christopher and Mensah Oblie, for themselves and on behalf of the Asua We Family of Accra, and the Defendant, Tetteh Lancaster of Oyarifa, Accra.
Presenting the application for the order for contempt, Counsel for the plaintiffs, Yaw Oppong said after the court had issued an injunction for all developments to stop on the land in dispute, a third party has defied the order and is developing on the land.
He said when this came to his notice, they wrote to the District Commander of the Ghana Police Service at Oyarifa, to inform him of the case before the court and the interim injunction place on it, and requested the Police to assist them to halt all illegal activities on the land which are in direct contempt of the orders of the court.
Present at the court, to give credence to counsel's claim was Chief Inspector Martin Doudu of the Oyarifa Police Station. He told the court, that when he was informed by Counsel of the ongoing court action, he called the developers and warned them to stay away from the land, which they agreed to do. According to him, he had since not heard anything about the case again.
Counsel for the Defendant who was also not happy about the third party affair agreed with the request by the Counsel for the plaintiffs.
In the substantive case, the two parties are claiming ownership of a tract of land situated at Ayi Mensah and bounded on the North by the Ayi Mensah - Kweiman road.
The contempt case was adjourned until any of the parties is confirmed to know about or is aware of the development of the land by a third party. The substantive case was also adjourned to October 18, 2006.
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