THE REPUBLIC vs. CENTRAL REGION LANDS COMMISSION EX PARTE NANA AMPONSAH ATTAH IV

HONYENUGA, J.A. This is an appeal against the Ruling of the High Court, Agona Swedru dated the 13th day of December 2012. The said court dismissed an application for judicial review in the nature of Mandamus to compel the Central Regional Lands Commission, the respondent to restore the lapsed statutory declaration. The facts of this appeal are that on the 29th December 1995, the applicant/appellant as the chief deposed to a Statutory Declaration which he subsequently registered with the respondent/respondent at the Lands Commission Secretariat at Cape Coast. The said Statutory Declaration was registered as CR 117/86. In 2010, some prospective developers to whom the applicant/appellant granted portions of the land to, conducted searches at the Lands Commission Secretariat. The said searches revealed that the respondent/respondent lapsed the Statutory Declaration and expunged it from their official records on the 10th May, 2001. Some of those who approached the applicant/appella...