KOFI OPPONG vs. AIRTEL GHANA AND FRANCIS ATO-FUAH [2019]DLHC8986

Date	2019-02-07
Suit No.	SUIT NO. BC/325/2011
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC8986

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE EMMANUEL AMO YARTEY (J)

AUGUSTINE ASARFO-ADJEI FOR NKRABEAH EFFAH DARTEY FOR PLAINTIF

JUSTICE KWAKU SALLAH FOR THE 1ST DEFENDANT

JULIET AGBOH FOR THE 2ND DEFENDANT

[2019]DLHC8986
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >KOFI OPPONG<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>AIRTEL
GHANA AND FRANCIS ATO-FUAH<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>[HIGH COURT (LAND DIVISION 7), 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. BC/325/2011&nbsp;
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7TH FEBRUARY, 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>AUGUSTINE
ASARFO-ADJEI FOR NKRABEAH EFFAH DARTEY FOR PLAINTIF<o:p></o:p>JUSTICE
KWAKU SALLAH FOR THE 1ST DEFENDANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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JULIET AGBOH FOR THE 2ND DEFENDANT<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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HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE EMMANUEL AMO YARTEY (J)<o:p></o:p>

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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The case of the
Plaintiff as captured by his Amended Statement dated the 24th day of
November, 2011 is that he is a Ghanaian who owns the subject land in issue and
that the 1st &nbsp;Defendant is a
communication Company doing business in Ghana.<o:p></o:p>That the Defendant
has erected a communication mast on his land.<o:p></o:p>It is the case
of the Plaintiff that all efforts is to get a just and fair compensation for
the said unauthorised presence of the 1st Defendant on Plaintiff’s
land have failed.<o:p></o:p>And that series
of correspondence between solicitors of Plaintiff and the 1st Defendant
ended up in unfulfilled promises of coming for negotiated settlement.<o:p></o:p>According to
the Plaintiff he has a Land Certificate backing his claim that the land is at
Gbawe in Accra upon which the 1st Defendant has erected the mast
belongs to him.<o:p></o:p>That the
Defendant is playing hide and seek with him and that unless the Court steps in
the 1st Defendant will not pay any compensation to him.<o:p></o:p>Based on these
facts the Plaintiff claims the following against the Defendant:<o:p></o:p>i.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Recovery
of a sum of money representing fair and just compensation for being on
Plaintiff’s land at a rate of 1,000 Ghana cedis per month from 1st
January 2010 until 31st December, 2025.<o:p></o:p>ii.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Costs.<o:p></o:p>In contesting the claim of the
Plaintiff the 1st Defendant entered an appearance and also filed a
defence.&nbsp; Per the defence the 1st
Defendant pleaded as follows:<o:p></o:p>“1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Save as hereinafter expressly admitted
the Defendant denies each and every allegation of fact contained in the
Statement of Claim as if the same were set out in extensor and traversed
seriatim.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp; 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Defendant
is not in a position to deny or adm</main>