NII ASHITEY SAASABI II vs. BASHIRU IBRAHIM AGORO & 2ORS

JUDGMENT DZAMEFE, JA This appeal emanates from the judgment of the High Court Land Division Accra dated 14th October, 2022. The brief facts of this appeal are that the plaintiff, the chief of Saasabi village under the Tema Traditional Council and the lawful Head of the Saasabi family in his statement of claim alleged that the defendants with the assistance of armed policeman entered Saasabi lands near Oyibi in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality and cleared a large portion of same. Thereafter they erected a sign post on the land claiming that they got same from the chief of Obosomase. It is his case that the land in issue does not belong to the people of Obosomase in the Eastern Region of Ghana and therefore have no right to enter the said land and to give same out to the defendants. The plaintiff gave the boundaries of the land in dispute, drawn by the colonial government in 1904 upon the request of the Ga Chiefs between Nungua and Tema, because of the frequent boundary disputes be...