THE PLOT ALLOCATION COMMITTEE AND NANA OPPONG GYABENG V. NANA OPPONG GYAN

JUDGEMENT

AYEBI J.A.

Asuotiano must have been blessed with visionary traditional leaders who in conjunction with the people and the Town and Country Planning Department of the Dormaa District Assembly devised a scheme for the orderly development of the town. That scheme was the formation of the Plot Allocation Committee made up of members of the town led by a traditional leader.

With the growth in population and expansion in size, farm lands which have become or urban land because of their proximity to the town were demarcated by the Town and Country Planning Department into residential, industrial or commercial and public plots. The Plot Allocation Committee is the body authorized to allocate plots to any beneficiary for any of the purposes a particular plot is earmarked for. By way of compensation, a family which loses its land to the scheme is compensated with a number of plots upon request.

The case of plaintiff/respondent (whom I shall refer to as plaintiff) is that his family owned …