OCANSEY V. DJANIE AND LAND COMMISSION

TWUMASI, J.A.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Circuit Court; Accra delivered on 14th January 1999. The appellant purchased a piece of land from the chief of Okponglo sometime in 1992. The evidence showed that in exercise of its executive powers the Government of the Gold Coast (as it then was) had already compulsorily acquired large tract of land engulfing this parcel of land purchased by the appellant.

Pursuant to the said acquisition the Lands Commission granted the respondent herein a lease of a portion of the land for residential purposes because it turned out that the project for which the government acquired the land could not materialise. However, in the supervening period the Land Registry had apparently due to oversight or call it a mistake which that institution in fact admitted at the trial issued title certificate to the appellant in respect of the sale transaction concluded between him and the chief of Okponglo.

The Lands Commission accordingly applied to the Cour…