THE REPUBLIC vs. NENE GAU AKROBETU, NUMO BEN, NARKI KWEINORTEY, TEI NARTEY AND AMOS BLEBO EX-PARTE: NUMO TEI AYITAI [2019]DLHC7644

THE REPUBLIC vs. NENE GAU AKROBETU, NUMO BEN, NARKI KWEINORTEY, TEI NARTEY AND A... [2019]DLHC7644

Date	2019-07-05
Suit No.	SUIT NO: CR/655/17
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC7644

HER LADYSHIP OLIVIA OBENG OWUSU J.

G.H. QUIST FOR APPLICANT

EDITH AWUKU ASABRE FOR 1ST 2ND & 3RD & 5TH RESPONDENTS

[2019]DLHC7644
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<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:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>NENE GAU
AKROBETU, NUMO BEN, NARKI KWEINORTEY, TEI NARTEY AND AMOS BLEBO<o:p></o:p>EX-PARTE: NUMO TEI AYITAI<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[HIGH
COURT (GENERAL JURISDICTION COURT 4), ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT
NO: CR/655/17&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE:
5TH JULY, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>G.H.
QUIST FOR APPLICANT <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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EDITH
AWUKU ASABRE FOR 1ST, 2ND &amp; 3RD &amp; 5TH 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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HER LADYSHIP OLIVIA OBENG
OWUSU, J.<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.5pt;
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RULING<o:p></o:p>

</div>By his application the applicant herein is seeking an order to commit
the respondents for contempt of Court.<o:p></o:p>In the supporting affidavit which was deposed to by the applicant’s
lawful attorney he alleged the following salient facts:<o:p></o:p>He is the plaintiff in suit no FAL/260/12. On the 17th
January, 2012 he caused his lawyers to issue a writ against the defendants for
the following reliefs:<o:p></o:p>“(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A
declaration that the vast tract of land situate, lying and being at Lotsubuer
in the Dandgbe West District of the Greater Accra Region and measuring 923.062 hectares
areas or 373.56 hectares and bounded on the West by Adainya family land on the
north west by Maya family land and bantam kabiewe land and on the south by
kabiewe land is the property of the plaintiffs.<o:p></o:p>(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Perpetual
injunction restraining the defendant from wining sand on the plaintiffs family
land.<o:p></o:p>(iii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An
order directed at the defendant for the reclamation of the degraded land at Lostsubuer
or in the alternative cost for reclamation.<o:p></o:p>(iv)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Damages
for trespass<o:p></o:p>(v)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Costs”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>On the 14th January, 2016 the 1st
respondent who is one of the defendants in that suit filed a motion for
interlocutory injunction against him. On the 13th June,2016 the
court in its ruling which was exhibited as “ESA 4” granted the
order of injunction by restraining the parties from developing/building on the
land or alienating portions to strangers or other 3rd parties. On
the 10th July, 2017 he was informed that some people were building
on the land in dispute so he sent his nephews, John Ayittah and Kwesi Ayittah
to go and verify whether this was true. <o:p></o:p>According to the applicant at the various sites
his nephews met one Addo Love, Abraham Tetteh, the 3rd and 4th
respondents who admitted that the structures which were being developed
belonged to them. Photographs of these structures according to him had be
annexed to the application as “ESA 5”.
When contacted Addo Love, Abraham Tetteh and the 4th respondent
indicated that the 2nd respondent sold the land to them.<o:p></o:p>Consequently his nephew John Ayittah informed them
that the land on which they were building on was part of the land in dispute,
and that the court had ordered that no building should be put on it. They
disregarded the warning so he caused his lawyers to write to them. The letter
was annexed to the application as Exhibit
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