THE REPUBLIC V. MRS. VIVIAN AKU BROWN AND 9 OTHERS EXPARTE: ODWUMA LAKES FARMS AND RURAL ESTATES LTD AND 1 OTHER

RULING

HENRY KWOFIE J.A.

This is the ruling in respect of an application by the applicants herein Odwuma Lakes Farms and Rural Estates Ltd and Baffour Assasie-Gyimah praying for an order committing the respondents to prison for “their contempt of the honorable Court of Appeal’s orders of interlocutory injunction.

The 2^nd applicant Baffour Assasie-Gyimah is the Managing Director of the 1^st applicant Company Odwuma Lakes Farms and Rural Estates Ltd. The 1^st Respondent Mrs. Vivian Aku Brown is the Head of the Adutso family of Osu whilst the 4^th Respondent Alhaji Ibrahim Jaja was at all material times the holder of a Power of Attorney from the 1^st Respondent and acted on behalf of the Adutso family of Osu in respect of large tracts of the Adutso family land.

The grounds upon which the application rested are set out in various paragraphs of the affidavit in support as follows:

“6). On the 19^th day of August 2015, the applicants sued out a writ against the first four respondents for a number of …