RAHINATU MOHAMMED vs. AKARARI AZINGYA AND AYUKA AZINGYA

The plaintiff, Rahinatu Mohammed, claims to be a business woman. She asserted she previously worked with the Social Security and National Insurance Trust, popularly referred to as SSNIT, from which she resigned in 1988 and went into business. It is her case that in September, 1976 she acquired plot No. 46, Dagmew Residential area, in Bolgatanga. From the record, at the time of the alleged acquisition of the property, she was unemployed. According to her, during the period, she assisted her late mother in her grain selling business till she was employed by SSNIT in 1978. Plaintiff not being engaged in any employment at the time, prompted the defendants, through their lawyer, Amoak Afoko, to question her financial capability to procure the property. Her response was that she was financially sound, then twenty-seven years of age. Speaking for myself, I fail to understand the correlation between her age and her financial standing, without any convincing proof of a viable source of income a...