HARRY ZAKOUR vs. JANET ANTWI

WELBOURNE (MRS), J.A. I have read my brother’s lead judgment and I am in agreement with it but have a few comments. This case is one of the myriad of cases bedeviling our land administration in this country. Too often do we see cases of acquisition of land by the State by executive Instruments, and those very lands being alienated by the very families from whom the lands were acquired by the state. The reason usually being attributed to this is non-payment of compensation or inadequate compensation paid by the State to the families. The Plaintiff in this case acquired a parcel of land from the Lands Commission in 1993 with an area of 0-15 acres situate at Ofankor Residential Area in Accra. The parcel of land was numbered Plot No 262 and was bounded on the North–East by proposed road on the South-East by plot No 263 on the South-west by plot No 267 and on the North-West by a proposed road which said piece of land is more particularly delineated on the site plan No L.D 9944/AC49...