STATE HOUSING CO. LTD vs. MADAM ESTHER GYEKE & 39 ORS (DEFENDANT) [2019]DLHC17213

Date	2019-03-29
Suit No.	SUIT NO. LD/1616/16
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC17213

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY (MRS)

SUSANNA NYAMPONG

AMAZING GRACE ADOMAA

A. FORSON

EDWARD SAM CRABBE

[2019]DLHC17213
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >STATE HOUSING CO. LTD<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>MADAM ESTHER GYEKE &amp; 39 ORS<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;<div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

<a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a>SUIT NO. LD/1616/16&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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: 29TH MARCH, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <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: black; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

SUSANNA NYAMPONG WITH
AMAZING GRACE ADOMAA HOLDING BRIEF FOR A. FORSON FOR PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p>

EDWARD SAM CRABBE FOR DEFENDANTS<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE
BARBARA TETTEH-CHARWAY (MRS)<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>The Plaintiff, State Housing Company
Ltd, formerly known
as State Housing
Corporation, is a limited
liability company which is in the business of providing housing. The Defendants
are tenants of the Plaintiff with various tenures
of leases and licences who occupy
Blocks P, Q and R of the Plaintiff’s flats located at Kanda Estates in
Accra.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;According
to the Plaintiff, sometime in 1995, the Government of Ghana adopted a strategic
plan known as the Greater Accra Metropolitan Strategic Plan (GAMA) with the aim
of redeveloping estates with low density
housing and dilapidated buildings. The Plaintiff’s claim that successive Governments have worked towards the
achievement of the objectives of the said strategic plan by capturing its principles in their Budget
Statements, Economic Policies and State of
the Nation Addresses as evidenced by Exhibits ‘B’ to
‘E’ attached to Plaintiff’s witness
statement.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;In
furtherance of the objectives of the GAMA strategic plan, the Plaintiff states
that it identified and earmarked some of its flats which were dilapidated and
had outlived their life span for redevelopment. These flats included
Blocks O, P, Q and R within the Kanda Estates.
The Plaintiff then entered into a contract
with Blue Marine
Assets Holding Limited
(BAHL), a company incorporated in t</main>