THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT, ACCRA EX PARTE SAM OKUDZETO AND OTHERS

YEBOAH, JSC:- My Lords, the applicants herein on 5/10/2017 filed this application for certiorari to quash the judgment of His Lordship Mr. Justice N.M.C Abodakpi, dated the 27th of July 2015 in which His Lordship had made far-reaching consequential orders in respect of a large tract of land on which the applicants herein are in possession of their respective lands at Otano and Adjiriganoo. The facts of this application appear not to be seriously controverted. However, this application raises several issues for our determination. In an affidavit in support of this application sworn to by Sam Okudzeto, Esquire, for himself and other applicants herein, the applicants assert that they had their respective grants at Otano and Adjirganno from Ashong Mlitse family of the Odaitei Tse, who are allodia owners of about 1,701.42 acres of land settled upon by their grantors predecessors about two hundred years ago, and even had a village therein. The said family, that is Ashong Mlitse famil...