HAJIA HABIBA OSMAN vs. SADIA SEIDU

The plaintiff is a trader of Asanga in Bawku, and issued the instant writ on 12th March 2013, claiming, inter alia, declaration of title to House Number B. 85, renumbered as number B. 311, Daduri/Bawku, on the basis that it is the self acquired and bona fide property of her deceased father, Salifu Moshie. It is her case that her father died intestate and upon his death, the house devolved unto her as his only surviving child. Leading evidence pertaining to how her father acquired the disputed house, she said: “He went and greeted a chief called Wonaaba Akologo and he gave him the plot. He is chief of Azanga. He is dead now. When he acquired the plot he put up three huts on it. He roofed them with thatch. He lived in them and decided to go down south intending to return and put up five rooms on it. (They were mud rooms). After the five rooms he invited his elder brother’s daughter called Amshetu to take care of the house whilst he went back to Apupuah and brought zinc and woo...