JOSEPH HAROLD WADIE vs. ELECTRICITY CO. (GH) LTD

The Plaintiff, Joseph Harold Wadie, is a pensioner while the Defendant is a company incorporated under the laws of Ghana with the duty to provide electricity for public consumption. Plaintiff’s case is that he is the owner of a parcel of land measuring 0.16 acres situate at Agbogbloshie on which he has put up a five (5) storey building which he intends to use as a hotel. The said land is covered by Land Title Certificate No. 17010 issued on 3rd March 2004. According to the Plaintiff, sometime in July 2016, he had a call from one Mr. Nai Operpeh Omai III, maintenance engineer of the Electricity Company, who requested for the purchase of a section of his land to be used by the Defendant for the installation of two (2) electricity transformers for the expansion of a nearby sub-station. The Plaintiff claims that he initially declined to sell the land to the Defendant but subsequently agreed to sell, on condition, that the Defendant would connect the Plaintiff’s Hotel directly to the...