KOTEYFIO NIKOI AND JONAS NIKOI vs. THEODORE MARTINEZ MONTERO AND TECCHICAS DEMONTERO SA [2014]DLCA2801

KOTEYFIO NIKOI AND JONAS NIKOI vs. THEODORE MARTINEZ MONTERO AND TECCHICAS DEMON... [2014]DLCA2801

Date	2014-03-13
Suit No.	IVIL APPEAL NO. H1/190/2013
Citation No.	[2014]DLCA2801

KUSI-APPIAH J.A. (PRESIDING)

OFO J.A.

DZAMEFE J.A.

NANA YAW NTRAKWAH FOR 1ST DEFENDANT/APPELLANT

MR. AGYENIM BOATENG FOR PLANTIFFS/RESPONDENTS/RESPONDENTS

[2014]DLCA2801
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KOTEYFIO NIKOI AND JONAS
NIKOI<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>THEODORE MARTINEZ MONTERO
AND TECCHICAS DEMONTERO SA<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[COURT OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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IVIL
APPEAL NO. H1/190/2013&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;DATE: 13TH
MARCH, 2014<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>NANA YAW NTRAKWAH FOR 1ST
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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MR. AGYENIM BOATENG FOR
PLANTIFFS/RESPONDENTS/RESPONDENTS <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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KUSI-APPIAH
J.A. (PRESIDING), OFO J.A. ,DZAMEFE J.A.<o:p></o:p>

</div>JUDGEMENT<o:p></o:p>KUSI-APPIAH,
J.A.: The facts
relevant to this interlocutory appeal are as follows:&nbsp; On 16th October, 2007, the 1st
and 2nd plaintiffs/respondents describing themselves as the Regent
and Principal Elder of the Nikoitse We of Nkwantanang, Madina, Accra respectively
and the owners of the La-Nkwantanang lands which include the land acquired by
the Government of Ghana for the Legonman (Redco) Housing Project at Madina, brought
an action (in Suit No. AL.1/2008) in the High Court, Accra as representatives
of Nikoitse We family of Nkwantanang against the appellant (as 1st
Defendant) and the 2nd Defendant herein for the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>“1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Declaration
of title to land with the following boundaries:&nbsp;
On the Western side by the properties of Odai Ntoo Family of Ashongman
lands, Agbogba village, Ablor Adjei lands, on the North by Panteng Hospital, on
the North-East by West African Secondary School and Adentan lands, on the
Sourth-East by Ogbodjo lands and on the South by the Atomic junction-Adentan
motor road.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Declaration that
Defendants activities of sending armed policemen and surveyors to remeasure the
Nkwantanang lands (Disputed Lands) amount trespassing on the plaintiffs’
legitimate lands.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Damages for trespassing on the
plaintiffs’ said lands.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Perpetual injunction
restraining the 1st and 2nd Defendants, their agents,
servants and workmen from further encroachment on&nbsp; the plaintiffs’ undeveloped land at La
Nkwantanang.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The plaintiffs/respondents
(hereinafter referred to as respondents), in their statement of claim averred
that under Executive Instruments (E.I.) 20 and E.I.17 of 1977 and 1991
respectively, the Government of Ghana acquired a large portion of their
family’s land and reallocated same to Bank for Housing and Construction (B.H.C.
for short), for housing projects to be sold to the Ghanaian public and that the
identity and the boundaries of the plaintiff’s land were clearly shown in the
said Executive Instruments.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>According to the respondents, no
compensation whatsoever was paid to their family in respect of the lands
compulsorily acquired under the said Instruments.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>It is the case of the respondents that
in or around 1995, B.H.C. went into liquidation and the Lands Commission and
the Land Valuation Board took advantage of the liquidation of the B.H.C. and
started selling portions of these acquired lands to individuals and
organizations.&nbsp; To vindicate their
rights, the respondents claimed that Nii Amon Koteyfio, the then Chief of La
Nkwantanang caused a Writ of Summons to be issued against the Lands Commission,
Land Valuation Board, the Attorney General and the B.H.C. in a suit numbered
L366/98, claiming inter alia, a fair, prompt, reasonable and adequate
compensation or repossession of respondents’ land acquired under the said
Instruments.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The respondents further averred that
the Attorney General and other agencies of Government having custody of
Government lands defended the action.&nbsp;
And by its judgment dated 30 January, 2004 the High Court, Accra,
presided over by Nana Gyamera Tawiah J. ordered that the plaintiffs therein were
to take immediate repossession of the
remaining undeveloped portion of the acquired land since part of the land
had been granted to private individuals and organizations contrary to and for
the purpose for which the land was acquired in 1997. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The respondents stated in their
stateme</main>