THE PLOT ALLOCATION COMMITTEE AND NANA OPPONG GYABENG vs. NANA OPPONG GYAN [2013]DLSC3101

Date	2013-03-22
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. H2/03/2013
Citation No.	[2013]DLSC3101

JUSTICE AYEBI JA [PRESIDING]

JUSTICE IRENE C DANQUAH JA

JUSTICE ALHAJI TANKO AMADU JA

BRIGHT-OBENG-MANU ESQ. FOR DEFENDANT/APPELLANT

NANA OBIRI BOAHENE WITH FREMPONG BOAMAH FOR PLAINTIFF/ RESPONDENT

[2013]DLSC3101
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE PLOT ALLOCATION
COMMITTEE AND NANA OPPONG GYABENG<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>NANA OPPONG GYAN<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[COURT OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<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. H2/03/2013&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: 22ND
MARCH, 2013<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&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; <o:p></o:p>BRIGHT-OBENG-MANU ESQ. FOR
DEFENDANT/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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NANA
OBIRI BOAHENE WITH FREMPONG BOAMAH FOR PLAINTIFF/ RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:
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JUSTICE
AYEBI
JA [PRESIDING] ,JUSTICE IRENE C DANQUAH JA, JUSTICE ALHAJI&nbsp; TANKO AMADU JA<o:p></o:p>

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JUDGEMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>AYEBI J.A.<o:p></o:p>Asuotiano must have been blessed with visionary traditional leaders who
in conjunction with the people and the Town and Country Planning Department of
the Dormaa District Assembly devised a scheme for the orderly development of
the town.&nbsp; That scheme was the formation
of the Plot Allocation Committee made up of members of the town led by a
traditional leader.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>With the growth in population and expansion in size, farm lands which
have become or urban land because of their proximity to the town were
demarcated by the Town and Country Planning Department into residential,
industrial or commercial and public plots.&nbsp;
The Plot Allocation Committee is the body authorized to allocate plots
to any beneficiary for any of the purposes a particular plot is earmarked
for.&nbsp; By way of compensation, a family
which loses its land to the scheme is compensated with a number of plots upon
request.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The case of plaintiff/respondent (whom I shall refer to as plaintiff) is
that his family owned three pieces of farm land at Asuotiano.&nbsp; Originally, his ancestors cultivated cocoa
farms on the pieces of land.&nbsp; When the cocoa
trees withered, the lands turned fallow.&nbsp;
But they continued to be in effective possession by cultivating same
piecemeal for their food and other requirements.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>From the pleadings, it does not appear that the plaintiff was against
the scheme.&nbsp; Rather he was aggrieved and
dissatisfied with the way the scheme was implemented as regards his family
lands.&nbsp; It is his case that the Committee
under the auspices of the 2nd defendant, without the consent,
authority and concurrence of his family earmarked and demarcated his family
land for various purposes and actually allocated them to prospective developers
and monies realized were given to the 2nd defendant.&nbsp; The plaintiff considered this act of the
defendants as wrong and unlawful as it amounted to trespass to his family land.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In his writ of summons, the plaintiff claimed for himself as head of the
Ankamano family of Asuotiano and on behalf of the family against the defendants
jointly and severally the following:<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A declaration of
title and recovery of possession of:<o:p></o:p>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;all that piece or parcel of land lying and
being at a place commonly known and called “Adeyepena” at Asuotiano on Dormaa
Stool land and having common boundaries with Wamfie Cemetery, Akosua Mansah
(deceased), the property of Wamfie Presbyterian Church, Asabere (deceased),
Oppong Kwadwo, Abena Taabea (deceased) and Berekum/Wamfie motor road.<o</main>