REPUBLIC vs. LAND TITLE REGISTRAR AND ANOTHER; EX PARTE BOAHEN II [2001]DLHC1252

Date	2001-10-18
Suit No.
Citation No.	[2001]DLHC1252

OFOE J

L S N AKUETTEH FOR THE APPLICANT.

DICK ANYADI FOR THE RESPONDENT.

[2001]DLHC1252
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color:#00B0F0">REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B0F0">LAND TITLE REGISTRAR AND ANOTHER; EX PARTE BOAHEN II<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>[2001-2002]
1 GLR 42<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="right" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;text-align:right;
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</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>L S
N AKUETTEH FOR THE APPLICANT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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DICK
ANYADI FOR THE RESPONDENT.<o:p></o:p>

</div>JUDGEMENT<o:p></o:p>Ofoe J. <o:p></o:p>It
is not in doubt that the Land Title Registry issued to Games International (GI)
a land title certificate No GA 13013 and issued in respect of the same land, a
land title certificate No GA 13872 to New England Estates Ltd. To clear the
anomaly, the Land Title Registrar subsequently instituted investigation into
the matter and came out with a decision concluding as follows:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">“From
the foregoing, the only conclusion that the Land Title Registry can come to is
that the land in dispute is the property of Lenshie quarter. It does not belong
to La, neither does it belong to any other quarter of Teshie. Incidentally GI
(Games International) had alluded to the fact that one quarter of Teshie, the
Nuumo Nmeshie family had endorsed their support of the grant of the property of
GI. The documents analysed above show conclusively that the land belongs to the
Lenshie quarter and not to La and no amount of endorsement by anybody can
change that. You are hereby informed that the Chief Registrar of Lands intends
to withdraw your certificate No GA 13013 for want of title in your grantor
within two weeks from April 2000. You are required to submit the said
certificate within the said two weeks.”<o:p></o:p>It
is this decision that the applicant, Nii Adjei Boahen II, Nmati Abonase Mantse,
La is asking this court to quash by certiorari and further to prohibit the Land
Registrar from further attempt at enforcing his decision.<o:p></o:p>There
is no dispute that the Land Title Registrar arrived at the said decision after
examining certain documents and judgment submitted by both Games International
and New England Estates Ltd (NEE) and in fact cancelled the certificate of
Games International. But why is the applicant disturbed by the decision of the
Land Title Registrar? He states it as follows in paragraph (11) of his
supporting affidavit:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
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That I am advised and verily believe same to be true that the decision of the
Land Title Registrar cannot be supported in law for the following reasons:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;border:none;mso-padding-alt:
31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">(i)
the Land Title Registrar has no legal authority to do what it purported to do
in exhibit<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.0pt;mso-pagination:none;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes">B; (ii) the Land Title Registrar violated
our fundamental human rights by purporting to take from us our ancestral lands
without giving us a hearing; and (iii) even on the face of exhibit B, the legal
reasoning for the decision therein is blatantly and fundamentally so faulty,
that it should not be made to stand.”<o:p></o:p>