[2019]DLCA8770May 29, 2019Court of Appeal

OGYEEDOM OBRENU KWESI ATTA VI vs. GHANA TELECOMMUNICATIONS CO LTD. AND LANDS COMMISSION CAPE COAST

A. M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS), J.A. 1. This is an appeal from the judgment of the High Court, Agona Swedru dated 10th May 2017. In the said judgment, the trial court declared title to the 2nd Defendant acting on behalf of the President of the Republic of Ghana with a commencement date of 1st May 2007. 4. The Respondent averred that upon this disclosure by the Appellant, he wrote a letter to the 2nd Defendant on 19th August 2015 with a copy to the Appellant, challenging the basis of the 2nd Defendant's purported act of the grant and requesting the 2nd Defendant to produce any instrument of State either acquiring Gomoa Afransi lands or that gave legitimacy to the acts of the 2nd Defendant but the 2nd Defendant failed, refused or I neglected to do so 5. The Respondent said he also caused his lawyer to write to the Appellant per a letter also dated 19th August 2015 drawing the Appellant's attention to the anomaly in its acquisition of the land and requesting the Appellant to atone tenant t...