THE REPUBLIC vs. ADONGO ALOGTE & 8 OTHERS; EX-PARTE STEPHEN AGEYIRIBA AGANA

This is a ruling touching on an application to commit the respondents for contempt of court. The application arose when on 27th January, 2017, the 1st respondent caused a writ of summons to be issued from the Registry of this court against the applicant and one Other in respect of a piece of land said to be situated at Tindonmologo-Tingre in Bolgatanga. The same day a motion for interlocutory injunction was filed by the 1st respondent, as the plaintiff, against the applicant herein and the other, as defendants, in respect of the disputed land. However, on 30th March, 2017, the court dismissed the motion. According to the applicant, the next day after the dismissal of the motion, the respondents went into the disputed land and destroyed a number of blocks he moulded and placed on it prior to the mounting of the writ against him; not only that, he asserted the respondents also erected a sign post on the land as a warning to deter him from entering the property he claimed he lawfully a...