THE REGISTERED TRUSTEES OFAFRIKANIA MISSION vs. MAJOR QUARSHIE (RTD) [2015]DLSC3034

Date	2015-12-02
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/36/2014
Citation No.	[2015]DLSC3034

ADINYIRA (MRS) JSC (PRESIDING)

DOTSE JSC

YEBOAH JSC

BONNIE JSC

BENIN JSC

KENNETH KUDJORDJIE ESQ. FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/APPELLANT.

MRS. M. Y. N. ACHIAMPONG ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/ RESPONDENT

[2015]DLSC3034
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REGISTERED TRUSTEES OFAFRIKANIA
MISSION<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MAJOR QUARSHIE (RTD)<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[SUPREME COURT, 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 APPEAL NO. J4/36/2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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: 2ND DECEMBER, 2015<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>KENNETH KUDJORDJIE ESQ.
FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT/APPELLANT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MRS.
M. Y. N. ACHIAMPONG ESQ. FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT/ RESPONDENT.<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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ADINYIRA (MRS) JSC (PRESIDING), DOTSE JSC, YEBOAH
JSC, BONNIE JSC, AND BENIN JSC&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>

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

</div>BENIN, JSC:-<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;This is an appeal against the judgment of the
Court of Appeal dated 16th May 2013, wherein it had set aside the
judgment of the High Court dated 11th February 2011. It is one of
those cases which have their roots from the days of the Armed Forces Revolutionary
Council whereby a number of private assets were confiscated to the State.
Property number B2 situate on Senchie Street, Airport Residential Area belonged
to the defendant/appellant/respondent herein Major, later Colonel Quarshie,
referred to hereafter as the defendant; this property was confiscated to the
State by virtue of the Confiscated Assets Committee Decree, 1979, (AFRCD 25). Following
the confiscation the Government of Ghana allocated the property in dispute to
the Africania Mission, plaintiff/respondent /appellant herein, referred to
hereafter as the plaintiff. The plaintiff moved into possession sometime in 1987.
On the eve of his departure from office, former President His Excellency John
Agyekum Kufuor did issue what appeared to be a deconfiscation order in favour
of the defendant in respect of property situate at Labone, numbered H/NO. 100A
4TH Norla Street, Accra. Apparently that was not the property
intended by the deconfiscation order but the present one in dispute. So the
Attorney-General acting on behalf of the State issued a corrective order, if I may
so put it. Acting on the strength of that, the defendant took steps to recover
the property from the plaintiff. It was on account of these moves by the
defendant that compelled the plaintiff to issue the writ of summons at the High
Court seeking these reliefs:<o:p></o:p>(a)&nbsp;&nbsp; Declaration of title to all that piece
or parcel of land known as Plot No. B containing area of 0.32 acre situate at
Airport Residential Area within the city of Accra in the Greater-Accra region
of the Republic of Ghana and bounded on the north-east by Revenue Office, on
the south-east by un-numbered plot and on the north-west by proposed road.<o:p></o:p>(b)&nbsp;&nbsp; Recovery of possession.<o:p></o:p>(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Perpetual injunction restraining the
defendant his assigns, servants, agents and whatever from preventing the
plaintiff’s peaceful enjoyment of the disputed property.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>(d)&nbsp; Costs.<o:p></o:p>The
plaintiff pleaded that it was allocated this property for use as its headquarters
by the Government of Ghana on 22nd August 1987. They moved into
occupation per its leader Osofo Komfo Damuah who lived and conducted the church
business from these premises. The said church leader lived there until his
demise in 1992. The plaintiff decided to pull down the existing structure and
erect anothe</main>