EDWARD AGYEKUM SEREBOE vs. CLEMENT NANA ADU KORANTENG [2023]DLHC15095

Date	2023-01-19
Suit No.	SUIT NO.CM/MISC/0534/2022
Citation No.	[2023]DLHC15095

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE FRANCIS OBIRI

JULIO DE MEDEIROS FOR THE APPLICANT

RICHARD NUNEKPEKU FOR THE RESPONDENT

[2023]DLHC15095
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >EDWARD AGYEKUM SEREBOE<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>CLEMENT
NANA ADU KORANTENG<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH
COURT, ACCRA]<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: 0in 0in 1pt;">

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NO.CM/MISC/0534/2022&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: 19TH JANUARY, 2023<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>JULIO DE
MEDEIROS FOR THE APPLICANT <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: 0in 0in 1pt;">

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</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP
JUSTICE FRANCIS OBIRI&nbsp;&nbsp; <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 0in;">

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</div>&nbsp;On June 15th
June 2022, the Applicant filed an application before this Court against the
Respondent. The applicant in his motion paper is praying the Court for warrant
to issue to the police to assist and/or aid him in taking possession and realising
all that piece and parcel of land situate, lying and being at Ofankor in Accra,
containing an approximate area of 0.15 acre with the digital address as
GW-0296-3448.<o:p></o:p>The motion
is supported by affidavit and exhibits. The relevant paragraphs are reproduced
as follows-<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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Respondent are Ghanaians and businessmen.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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dated 28th day of January 2022, and executed between the Applicant
and the Respondent, the Applicant agreed and the Respondent accepted to advance
an amount of One Million, Two Hundred Thousand Ghana Cedis only
(GH¢1,200,000.00) to the Respondent for a period of one month.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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