AMARTEI vs. STATE INSURANCE CORPORATION

JUDGMENT OF LUTTERODT J. Haatso is a village lying along the Accra-Kwabenya Atomic Energy motor road. The first defendant corporation is a statutory body established under the laws of Ghana. By an executive instrument entitled “Site for the State Insurance Corporation Instrument, 1979 (E.I. 58)” the Government of Ghana acting through the Lands Commission and in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the State Lands Act, 1962 (Act 125) compulsorily acquired a large tract of land at Greenhill, Legon for the first defendant. The purpose was to enable the first defendant develop the land into a residential estate. There is a controversy as to whom this development was meant to benefit. I would leave this issue for a moment until the need arises for its determination. Suffice it to say however that the purpose was as already stated to turn the area into a residential estate. The people of Haatso are not particularly enamoured with these noble objectives. The plaintiff who describes...