LYDIA AKWANDUA QUARCOO V. ALHAJI BABA SALIFU

JUDGMENT 

The 1st Plaintiff commenced this action against the Defendants in her capacity as  administrator of the estate of the late Jama Ahele Zinabu (deceased). According to the  Plaintiffs, the late Jama Ahele Zinabu, died intestate on the 25th of September 2005 and on  the 11th of June 2013, Letters of Administration of her Estate were granted to the Plaintiffs  by the High Court Accra. Plaintiffs’ claim that they are royals and members of the Abbey We  Division of the Odai Ntow family from which chiefs are selected to occupy the Kwabenya  Stool. 

Plaintiffs say that the deceased, Jama Ahele Zinabu, was the daughter of the late Ahele  Quarcoo and a niece of the then chief of Kwabenya, Ahele Quarshie. During the reign of  Ahele Quarshie, the deceased, by virtue of being a member of the royal family, and with the  tacit approval of principal members of the said family, reduced into her possession a large  tract of land by cultivating a farm. The land in dispute falls within the said …