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NANA ASIAMAH ABOAGYE V. ABUSUAPANYIN KWAKU APAU ASIAM

(2018) JELR 65224 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  24 Oct 2018  •  Ghana

Coram
ADINYIRA (MRS) JSC (PRESIDING), YEBOAH JSC, BAFFOE-BONNIE JSC APPAU JSC AND PWAMANG JSC

Judgement

JUDGMENT

PWAMANG JSC:-

This case takes its roots from an earlier case filed in the High Court, Accra, Suit No. 2539/91 intituled Nana Asiamah Aboagye v. 1.Nana Addo Dankwa III, 2. The Attorney-General. The plaintiff in that case claimed on behalf of four families for ownership and possession of a parcel of land at Larteh adjoining the Okuapeman Secondary School. He contended that the land was the ancestral land of the four families but unknown to them the predecessor of Nana Addo Dankwa III, Akropong Omanhene Nana Kwame Fori, purported to grant it out in the 1960s for the building of Okuapeman Secondary School without their consent. Their case was that the school occupied only a portion of the land and they did not know their whole land had been taken until their activities on the land were challenged by subjects of the Akropong Stool and a search at Lands Commission revealled that the land had indeed been given out, hence the suit. The families were; Okyeame Kwame Asiem, Nana Obeng Kwa…

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