A Kumasi businessman, Mr. Derrick Addo Bimpeh, has called on the government to institute measures that would make officials of the Lands Commission uphold and maintain a level of sanity and discipline in the discharge of their duties.
He said the move would help sustain a positive image and bring some level of respect to the government.
Mr. Addo Bimpeh made the appeal on the premise that there are countless circumstances where the Lands Commission prepares and issues duplicate lease documents to clients, thus encouraging litigations and disputes.
According to Mr. Addo, most of the cases before the courts are land dispute-related, which litigations arise from the omission and commission of officials of the Lands Commission, and called for moves to remove such bottlenecks from the system.
Citing an instance, the concerned businessman said one Mr. Solomon Koduah is claiming his building plot No. 1 block L, Afrancho, Kumasi, with title No. 21830 and serial no. 265/2014 made between him and the Otumfuo Akunafuohene Stool and the Asantehene since December 15, 2013, and which was registered at the Lands Commission on June 6, 2014.
He claimed he had conducted searches and made inquiries about the plot of land at the Lands Commission, the Afigya Kwabre West District Assembly, and the Ghana Highways Authority to confirm that the plot had not been previously acquired or registered by any individual or persons.
Mr. Addo Bimpeh, who was given judgment by a Kumasi High Court on January 23, 2020 over the land in question, expressed shock and disbelief when Mr. Solomon Koduah surfaced claiming ownership of the same land supposed to be government land to which he holds a lease.
The court, presided over by His Lordship Justice Kwasi Dapaah, based on evidence before it, declared that Plot No. 1, Block ‘L’ on Otumfuo’s Akunafuohene’s land at Afrancho in the Afrigya Kwabre belongs to the plaintiff (Derrick Addo Bimpeh), taking into account all documents of relevance, including a lease, a site plan, receipts, building permits and various correspondence to the title of the plaintiff to the plot referred to No. 7, Block 1, which changed to Plot No. 1 Block L following a re-zoning of the land, as against the defendant’s claim to Plot 10, Block L.
It, therefore, ordered that the defendant and her agents and assigns be restrained from entering the said land or interfere with the plaintiff’s right and interest in the plot of land, and also awarded a cost of GH¢10,000 to the plaintiff, yet the said Solomon Koduah goes about claiming ownership of same.
Mr. Addo Bimpeh said this nasty and dirty development and illegality can happen with the assistance of some state officials hiding in statutory institutions, and called for sanctions against such officials if found out to minimise land disputes before the law courts.
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