TWIFO OIL PLANTATION PROJECT LIMITED vs. AYISI AND OTHERS

JUDGMENT OF MENSA BOISON J.A. This is an appeal from the judgment of Wuaku J. sitting at the High Court, Cape Coast, dated 30 April 1982, by which he found that, as against the defendant-appellants (hereinafter referred to as the defendants), the plaintiff-respondents (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiffs) were entitled to a declaration of possessory title, an order of quia timet and perpetual injunction. The plaintiffs sued for themselves and on behalf of two farmers’ syndicates, the Angua Ansah and Thomas Asare Yeboah groups. In 1928, the plaintiffs purchased from the Merkwa stool a large tract of land on which they have settled ever since. The Merkwa stool land and what the plaintiffs purchased are parts of a larger tract of land known as the Hemang lands, in the Central Region of Ghana. Although by the Hemang Lands Acquisition Decree, 1975 (NRCD 332), the lands of the plaintiffs, together with other lands were acquired by the Republic of Ghana in 1973, the plaintiffs .....