EVELYN NYARKOA OBENG AND VICTORIA SOLOMON vs. DAOUD ANUM YEMOH [2019]DLHC10626

Date	2019-07-29
Suit No.	SUIT NO: GJ/1012/2018
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC10626

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE KWEKU T. ACKAAH- BOAFO

MR. FRANCIS KUMAH FOR THE PLAINTIFF - PRESENT

KWASI APPIAH KORANG FOR THE DEFENDANT – ABSENT

[2019]DLHC10626
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >EVELYN NYARKOA OBENG AND VICTORIA
SOLOMON<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>DAOUD ANUM YEMOH<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;
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</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>MR. FRANCIS KUMAH
FOR THE PLAINTIFF - PRESENT<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

KWASI
APPIAH KORANG FOR THE DEFENDANT – ABSENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE KWEKU T. ACKAAH- BOAFO<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">&nbsp;<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Introduction:<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">[1]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">The Plaintiffs, Victoria Solomon and Evelyn Nyarkoa
Obeng are mother and daughter respectively. According to the pleadings the
Defendant is a former Honourable member of Ghana’s Parliament and he
represented the Obom-Domeabra Constituency in the Greater Accra Region. The Plaintiffs
contend that sometime in or about the year 2000 they bought four plots of land
(two each) situate at Lakeside Estates at Adenta in Accra from the Defendant
for GH¢4,500 per plot. According to the Plaintiffs they believed the Defendant
had capacity and authority to deal with them as the Lawful Attorney of the Anum
Yemo family based on the representations he made to them. The Plaintiffs
contend that after paying the money for the plots of land they deposited quarry
stones and sand on the land to commence construction but they were confronted
by land guards who drove them away on the grounds that their Vendor is not the
owner of the land. <o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">&nbsp;<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">[2]<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-language:
EN-CA">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is the case of the
Plaintiffs that they informed the Defendant and he apologized to them and “gave
them one new plot each in October 2013 at New Legon Annex, Frafraha within the
Adenta Municipality as part replacement pending the demarcation of two
additional plots”. The 1st Plaintiff says she erected a fence wall around the
two plots but they were demolished by another group of land guards who claimed
that the Defendant had no land there to sell to them. It is the further case of
the Plaintiffs that the Defendant after becoming aware again gave them “another
two adjacent plots (one each) at another location at New Legon Annex in the
Adenta Municipality in July 2014 but they again lost the land through the
activities of land guards of opposing claimants of the land. <o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">&nbsp;<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">[3]<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-language:
EN-CA">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is the further case of the
Plaintiffs that once it became obvious that the Defendant could not give them
any secured land they requested for the “refund of their monies at the current
value of lands within the Lakeside Estates or New Legon Annex areas, but the
Defendant failed to make the refunds after several promises to do so”. <o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">&nbsp;