The Chief of Akotoshie in the Ga West municipality of the Greater Accra Region, Nii Okai- koi Afragaja I, has issued a stern warning to people encroaching on a parcel of land numbering about 38.9 acres near Medie in the Eastern Region.
Nii Okai- koi Afragaja I explained as the gazzetted chief of Akotoshie under the Asere division of Accra, he had not sold any land to the people currently occupying said land space.
He warned the stool will take steps to have all encroachers on the said land evicted to protect its property.
“As the chief of the area, I have not sold any land to anybody in the area adding that the area in question was a coconut farm.
So anybody who has bought land from the encroachers are at risk until they regularize their stay with the Akotoshie stool under the Asere division of Accra.”
The chief issued this warning after an Accra-based high court in a ruling directing Lands Commission to expunge records that purport that Akotoshie is the Eastern Region.
The court in a ruling dated April 28, 2022, before Justice Abena A. Oppong in a suit number /0607/2016 in the matter of ASFAT Co Limited versus Supreme Genesis Investment Limited, Mr Frank Annor-Dompreh and the Lands Commission.
The court in its ruling over the 38.9 acres of lands near Blue Skies at Medie in the Eastern Region directed the Executive Secretary of the Lands Commission to direct his Eastern Regional branch of the commission to delete the recorded transaction of the ASFAT Co Limited and Supreme Genesis Investment Limited at its Eastern Regional branch, Koforidua.
The judge in her ruling awarded damages to the plaintiff for trespassing, ‘I take consideration to the extent of the activities of the first and second defendants on the disputed land as evidenced in exhibit ‘J’ series and ‘L’ series and awarded the plaintiff an amount of thirty thousand Cedis in damages.
The judge ruled that ‘with this, I dismiss the first defendant’s counterclaim and enter judgment for the plaintiff as the lease of all that piece or parcel of land situates, lying and being at Obotan (Ewukope) near Amasaman in the Greater Accra Region and containing in the approximate area of 38.76 acres of 15.16 hectares more or less or less bounded on the north-west by Okei Kpa Okai Fio family of the Gbese.
