THE REPUBLIC vs. JOHNSON COMPLEX AND VICTOR KWABENA JOHNSON (RESPONDENTS) EXPARTE: LT. COL. MANASSEH OKPOTI KONEY

This is an application for an order to commit the respondents to prison for contempt The applicant filed two affidavits, one being supplementary to the other, in support of his application in which he disclosed the following: He is a son, beneficiary and one of the administrators of the estate of J. E. Koney. On the 13th of March, 2006, one Emmanuel Okpoti Koney (deceased) who was also a beneficiary and an administrator of the estate of the late J. E. Koney was authorized by the administrators to institute an action against the 1st respondent herein in the High Court on behalf of the estate to recover possession of H/No. C30/4, Tip Toe Lane Accra after the deadline for the 1st respondent therein to quit the premises expired on 31st of December, 2005. Subsequently on an application by the applicant, an order of interlocutory injunction was made by the Court against the 1st respondent on the 21st of June, 2006. In the injunction order the Court restrained the 1st respondent from c...