AUGUSTA AKWELEY ANNANG SUING PER HER LAWFUL ATTORNEY VICTORIA ANNANG vs. ACCRA METROPOLITAN ASSEMBLY AND MAJOR (RTD.) AWUAH [2015]DLCA8006

AUGUSTA AKWELEY ANNANG SUING PER HER LAWFUL ATTORNEY VICTORIA ANNANG vs. ACCRA... [2015]DLCA8006

Date	2015-07-09
Suit No.	CIVIL SUIT:NO: H1/221/2013
Citation No.	[2015]DLCA8006

KUSI-APPIAH (J.A.) - PRESIDING

DORDZIE (MRS.) (J.A.)

MENSAH (J.A.)

[2015]DLCA8006
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >AUGUSTA AKWELEY ANNANG SUING
PER HER LAWFUL ATTORNEY VICTORIA ANNANG<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/ APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>ACCRA
METROPOLITAN ASSEMBLY AND MAJOR (RTD.) AWUAH<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS/
RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>[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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CIVIL SUIT:NO:&nbsp; H1/221/2013&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 9TH JULY, 2015<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, DORDZIE
(MRS.) (J.A.), MENSAH (J.A.)<o:p></o:p>

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</div>KUSI-APPIAH, J.A.:<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The only issue that arises for determination in this appeal
is whether the High Court, Accra, Land Division was right in holding that the
appellant’s action, having not been commenced within the period prescribed by Section
127A of the Local Government Act, 1993 (Act 462) was statute barred. <o:p></o:p>The appellant’s claim in the High Court (Land Division)
Accra was for:<o:p></o:p>“a.&nbsp; special damages<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;
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text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">i.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Cost
of building destroyed ¢1,563,750.00<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;
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text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">ii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Cost
of valuation<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; b.&nbsp;&nbsp;
General damages<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; c.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Perpetual injunction restraining defendants from carrying on any demolition on
plaintiff’s land without due process of law.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp; d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Order
that the plaintiff be granted her building permit by 1st defendant.<o:p></o:p>The facts relied on by the parties to establish their
respective cases were not complicated.&nbsp;
The appellant’s case was that she is the owner of plots of land situate
and lying at Okpobi Gonno, Teshie in Accra.&nbsp;
The appellant claimed to have acquired her land from Numo Adjei Kwankwo
II, the Osabu and Ayiku Wulomo of Teshie, Accra, the head of Tsie We family as
well as the Kle Musum Quarter.&nbsp; She
averred that in the year 2002, she built a house at her said land at Okpobi
Gonno, Teshie Accra.<o:p></o:p>According to the appellant she applied for a building
permit before commencing development on the land.&nbsp; She contended that on 28th June,
2002 the 1st defendant/respondent wrote Remove by AMA on her building.&nbsp;
That on 29th June, 2002, the 1st respondent (AMA
for short) acting through the 2nd respondent and some of its
officials went onto her land with bulldozers and other machines and demolished
all the structure thereon.&nbsp; The appellant
further claimed that the respondents herein carried out the demolition exercise
in fragrant breach of the Local
Government Act, 1993 (Act 462).<o:p></o:p>The respondents resisted the appellant’s claim.&nbsp; In their s</main>