EDWARD O BOAKYE, UNITED MATTRESS & FOAM CO. LTD, FURNITURE JOINERY AND CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD, AIRPORT SHOPPING CENTRE AND KANTOS HOSPITAL AND CONFISCATED ASSET COMMITTEE AND ATTORNEY-GENERAL [1996]DLCHRAJ5720

EDWARD O BOAKYE, UNITED MATTRESS & FOAM CO. LTD, FURNITURE JOINERY AND CONSTRUCT... [1996]DLCHRAJ5720

Date	1996-07-15
Suit No.	Our Ref: CHRAJ/158/95/1333
Citation No.	[1996]DLCHRAJ5720

EMILE F

[1996]DLCHRAJ5720
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >EDWARD O BOAKYE, UNITED
MATTRESS &amp; FOAM CO. LTD, FURNITURE JOINERY AND CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD,
AIRPORT SHOPPING CENTRE AND KANTOS HOSPITAL<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(PETITIONERS)<o:p></o:p>AND<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B050">CONFISCATED ASSET COMMITTEE
AND ATTORNEY-GENERAL <o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;text-align:center;
mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">(CHRAJ)<o:p></o:p>

Our
Ref: CHRAJ/158/95/1333&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE:
15/07/1996<o:p></o:p>

</div>commissioner:<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
color:#111100">EMILE F SHORT THE COMMISSIONER<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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RULING<o:p></o:p>

</div>On the 20th of March, 1995 Messrs Fugar &amp;
Company, Legal Practitioners and Notaries Public, filed the instant petition as
Solicitors acting for and on behalf of their clients Mr. Edward O. Boakye his
wife and the four other companies petitioners herein. The companies are United
Mattress &amp; Foam Company Limited, Kantos Hospital, Furniture Joinery and
Construction Limited, and Airport Shopping Complex. All the aforementioned
companies are managed by the first petitioner Mr. Edward O. Boakye. The 1st
petitioner and his wife were the only shareholders of the said companies.<o:p></o:p>The petition was brought under section 35(2)
of the Transitional Provisions of the 1992 Constitution, and the relief sought
was for the deconfiscation of certain properties allegedly owned by 2nd, 3rd,
4th and 5th petitioners. That section provides as follows:<o:p></o:p>"where any property or part of any property of a person was
confiscated on the basis of his holding a public or political office or on any
other basis, and it is established to the satisfaction of the Commissioner for
Human Rights and Administrative Justice that the property or that part was
acquired before he assumed public or political office, or that it was otherwise
lawfully acquired, the property or that part shall be returned to that
person"<o:p></o:p>The Solicitors stated in the petition that
the properties in question were taken over by the Confiscated Assets Committee
(hereinafter referred to CAC) sometime in 1979 under the mistaken impression
that they were confiscated to the State by the Armed Forces Revolutionary
Council. They provided particulars on the said properties as follows:<o:p></o:p>HOUSE NUMBERS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LOCATION &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;OWNER(S)<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.0pt;margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .H/No 10
or 98A&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4th Norla Street&nbsp;&nbsp; North Labone&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; United Mattress &amp;Co.
&amp;Ltd<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
H/No. 15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Giffard Road (near BOD)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; United Mattress
&amp; Co. Ltd.<o:p></o:p>