[2024]DLHC18040 • January 24, 2024 • High Court
BABA GAMBO BAAKO vs. PRINCE ARMAH & 2 ORS
The Plaintiff, as administrator of his late father's estate, claimed ownership of a 1.23-acre parcel of land at Sabon Zongo, alleging customary grant and registered deed of conveyance. The Plaintiff alleged trespass and unlawful demolition of structures by the Defendants, who claimed state acquisition of the land under Executive Instrument 131 of 1963 and ownership through inheritance and government regularization. The Plaintiff sought declarations of title, nullity of acquisition, recovery of possession, and injunctions.
read moreJUDGMENT It is a sad commentary for our judicial system that an unsophisticated case such as this should drag in |Court for more than two decades. I could count at least eight Judges from the records who have handled the suit. At last, the matter is coming to an end today at the trial Court. In the Amended Statement of Claim and Writ of Summons filed on 30th October, 2008, the Plaintiff sought for the following reliefs: “a. A Declaration of title to the piece of land at Sabon Zongo measuring an approximate area of 1.23acres bounded on the North-east by a proposed road measuring 185 feet more or less, on the South-West by a proposed road measuring 170 feet more or less, on the North West by the vendor’s land measuring 180 feet and 120 feet respectively more or less and on the South East by the vendor’s land measuring 175 feet more or less. b. A Declaration that the purported acquisition of the said piece of land by the Second Defendant is null and void for compliance...