[2023]DLHC16909 Login to Read Full Case <span style="font-size: 18px !important;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">NYIKPA LUCY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(PETITIONER)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua";color:#00B0F0">SIMON QUIST AYIKU<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt; margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">[HIGH COURT, HO]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops:168.75pt 278.15pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <o:p></o:p></span></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><a name="_heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">SUIT NO. E6/11/2023 DATE: 24<sup>TH</sup> JULY, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops:96.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">COUNSEL <o:p></o:p></span></b></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">GODWIN KPOBLE FOR PETITIONER <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">RESPONDENT IN PERSON<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"">CORAM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:-2.5pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE CHARITY A. ASEM (MRS.)<o:p></o:p></span></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;"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black 1.5pt; padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Book Antiqua";mso-bidi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"">JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:9.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">BY <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt">COURT</span></span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:9.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Let<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>petitioner<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>be<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>sworn to<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>testify.<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"> </span>Both<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>do<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>not<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>wish<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>call<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>any<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">witnesses.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:9.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">S.<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>O.<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>B<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt"> </span>in <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">English.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:9.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;tab-stops:43.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.3pt">Q:</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> Give<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>your<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>full<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>name<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>court. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:9.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;tab-stops:43.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.3pt">A:</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> Lucy Nyikpa is my name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:9.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;tab-stops:43.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.25pt">Q:</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> Where<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>do<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>you <span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">stay?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:9.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;tab-stops:43.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.3pt">A:</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> Ho,<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>Barracks<span style="letter-spacing:-.75pt"> </span>Newtown. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:9.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;tab-stops:43.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.3pt">Q:</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> What work do you do? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:9.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;tab-stops:43.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;letter-spacing:-.3pt">A:</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> Police Officer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:10.0pt;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-left:9.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:11