EBUSUAPANYIN KOJO BAMBA SUBSTITUTED BY PETER KOFI ARTHUR vs. NANA KOBINA ANKWANDAH III, MADAM AMA KUFFUWA AND OPANYIN KWESI ACKON [2013]DLCA8081

EBUSUAPANYIN KOJO BAMBA SUBSTITUTED BY PETER KOFI ARTHUR vs. NANA KOBINA ANKWAN... [2013]DLCA8081

Date	2013-11-21
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. HI/38/2012
Citation No.	[2013]DLCA8081

HONYENUGA J.A. (PRESIDING)

ADJEI J.A.

ACKAH-YENSU (MS) J.A.

MR. EMMANUEL BECKLEY FOR THE DEFENDANTS/ RESPONDENTS

MR. AMPONSAH DADZIE FOR THE PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT

[2013]DLCA8081
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >EBUSUAPANYIN KOJO BAMBA SUBSTITUTED BY PETER KOFI ARTHUR<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>NANA KOBINA
ANKWANDAH III, MADAM AMA KUFFUWA AND OPANYIN KWESI ACKON<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL,
CAPE COAST]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL
APPEAL NO.&nbsp; HI/38/2012&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 21ST
NOVEMBER, 2013<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR.
EMMANUEL BECKLEY FOR THE DEFENDANTS/ RESPONDENTS<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MR.
AMPONSAH DADZIE FOR THE PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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HONYENUGA
J.A. (PRESIDING), ADJEI J.A., ACKAH-YENSU (MS) J.A.<o:p></o:p>

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JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>HONYENUGA,
J.A.<o:p></o:p>This
is an appeal by the plaintiff/appellant against the judgment of the High Court,
Cape Coast dated the 25th day of March, 2011.&nbsp; The said decision dismissed the
plaintiff/appellant’s claim and awarded costs of GH¢1,000.00 against him.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
facts of this appeal are that the plaintiff/appellant claims that the parties
belonged to one family that is the Royal Nsona family of which he is the head, and
also head of the land in dispute.&nbsp;
Accordingly, the 1st defendant/respondent was made the chief
of Ankwandah during the headship of his predecessor.&nbsp; However, through a misunderstanding among the
people of Ankwandah including the Royal Nsona family, the 1st
defendant/respondent unilaterally and voluntarily seceded from the family and
formed another Nsona family headed by the 3rd
defendant/respondent.&nbsp; The
defendants/respondents installed the 2nd defendant/respondent as the
queenmother of the town.&nbsp; The 1st
defendant/respondent and his siblings were alienating portions of the land in
dispute to their siblings and others without reference to the
plaintiff/appellant and his family.&nbsp; The defendants/respondents
also executed a Statutory Declaration in the name of their new ‘Barima Ankwandah
Nsona Family’ claiming that the land in dispute belonged to them.&nbsp; The defendants/respondents disputed the
plaintiff/appellant’s claim and claimed the land in dispute as belonging to
their Nsona Royal family and that they are the original descendants of the
Royal family.&nbsp; They also claimed that the
plaintiff/appellant’s family members are strangers and also their tenants.&nbsp; Concerned with the state of affairs, the
plaintiff/appellant caused a writ of summons and a statement of claim to be
issued and served claiming as follows:-<o:p></o:p>“(1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A declaration of title to all that piece
or parcel of land lying and being situate at Ankwandah and (forming the Ankwandah
township) which said Land is bounded on the one side by the village called
Mborofo-Akyenmu and Owira Akyenmu and on the other side by Mpeasem Land, and
yet on another side by Brenu-Akyenmu Lands and again on other side by the Gulf
of Guinea as being the property of the Royal Nsona Family of Ankwandah headed
by the plaintiff herein named.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A
declaration that any Statutory declaration at whatsoever document executed by
the 1st, 2nd and 3rd defendants with respect
to the Lands at Ankwandah as being owned by the defendants’ family now known
and called “Barima Ankwandah Nsona Family” with 3rd defendant as its
family head and the 2nd defendant as the said family’s Queenmother
be so declared by this Honourable Court as null and void and of no legal
effect.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A
declaration that any document purported to have been executed by the 1st,
2nd and 3rd defendants regarding the disputed Ankwandah
Land copies of which have been lodged with the Lands Commission Secretariat,
Cape Coast be so declared null and void.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(4)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A
declaration that any grant of any portion of the disputed property made by
either the 1st, 2nd and 3rd defendants
individually or jointly by the 1st, 2nd and 3rd
defendants to anybody be so declared null and void.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(5)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A
declaration that the Land described herein forming the Ankwandah township
boundaries whereof as given in this reliefs supra, is a family property owned
and possessed by the plaintiff’s Nsona family of Ankwandah Headed by the
plaintiff.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(6)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Recovery
of possession.<o:p></o:p>