Businessman sues Asokore Mampong MCE
A businessman resident at Akorem in the Kumasi metropolis has dragged the Municipal Chief Executive(MCE) of Asokore Mampong , Mr Nuhu Hamida, to court for using his position to illegally acquire his plot of land situated within his (MCE’s) jurisdiction.
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Aminu Sahabi, the businessman, claimed that since Mr Hamida became the MCE of the municipality, he had used all means to take possession of the said land which he (Sahabi) had legally procured from the Asantehemaa, Nana Afua Kobi Ampem II.
Redress
In a writ filed at the Kumasi High Court (Land Division), the plaintiff is seeking a restraining order against the MCE and the Asokore Municipal Assembly from carrying out its threat of demolishing his building on the said land under the guise that it was sited on a service line.
He is also seeking a declaration of title to “all that piece or parcel of land known as Plot No 10A, Block ‘T’, Akorem, Kumasi.”
Statement of claim
In his statement of the claim, the plaintiff averred that he acquired the said plot of land from the rightful owners and had since been issued with the lease duly signed by the Asantehene.
According to the writ, the plaintiff maintained that he had gone through all the legal processes of acquiring the said plot of land, including the land title which was duly signed by the Regional Land Commission director.
It is the plaintiff’s claim that at no point during the process of registering the land was he told that the said land was a reserved area for a service line for the Ghana Water Company Limited, as alleged by the MCE.
He further claimed that the MCE had previously placed some squatters and containers on the land, thus making it impossible for him to develop it.
According to the statement of claim, this compelled Mr Sahabi to take action at the Asokore Mampong District Court to have the said squatters removed from the disputed plot, and a ruling was given in his favour.
Building permit
It said furtherance to the court ruling, the plaintiff applied for a building permit and paid the necessary fees and was told to commence building while the permit was being processed.
However, according to the writ, on October 10, 2015, the plaintiff learnt that the MCE, acting on behalf of the assembly, the second defendant, was preparing “with haste to demolish the building on the land without legal basis.”