THE REPUBLIC vs. MRS. VIVIAN AKU BROWN AND 9 OTHERS EXPARTE: ODWUMA LAKES FARMS AND RURAL ESTATES LTD AND 1 OTHER

HENRY KWOFIE J.A. This is the ruling in respect of an application by the applicants herein Odwuma Lakes Farms and Rural Estates Ltd and Baffour Assasie-Gyimah praying for an order committing the respondents to prison for “their contempt of the honorable Court of Appeal’s orders of interlocutory injunction. The 2nd applicant Baffour Assasie-Gyimah is the Managing Director of the 1st applicant Company Odwuma Lakes Farms and Rural Estates Ltd. The 1st Respondent Mrs. Vivian Aku Brown is the Head of the Adutso family of Osu whilst the 4th Respondent Alhaji Ibrahim Jaja was at all material times the holder of a Power of Attorney from the 1st Respondent and acted on behalf of the Adutso family of Osu in respect of large tracts of the Adutso family land. The grounds upon which the application rested are set out in various paragraphs of the affidavit in support as follows: “6). On the 19th day of August 2015, the applicants sued out a writ against the first four respondents ...