Land at Adehyeman Gardens belongs to KMA
The Metropolitan Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Mr Kojo Bonsu, has stated that the portion of land at Adehyeman Gardens which is in contention belongs to the KMA.
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Speaking at a press conference in Kumasi, he explained that the KMA was the only entity that had legitimate claim to the land and all available documents at the Lands Commission proved that.
Instituted an action
Mr Bonsu explained that somewhere in 2012, the head of the Kwaku Kra Family of Ahenkro instituted an action against the KMA, claiming ownership of the parcel of land in contention and sought an order of perpetual injunction to restrain the KMA from interfering with the land.
The assembly entered an appearance and filed a statement of defence, and the plaintiff also filed another motion for an order for interlocutory injunction against the assembly and the KMA again filed its opposition to the Kwaku Kra Family’s application.
KMA provided evidence
He said the KMA provided evidence to back its claim that it had legitimately possessed the land for over half a century.
According to him, the High Court, presided over by Justice Eric Baah, on June 22, 2012, dismissed the application of the head of the Kwaku Krah Family and ruled that the assembly had the legitimate right to possess the said parcel of land.
Instead of the plaintiff to appeal the decision of the court or better still prove their title to the land as the court had directed, the family sneaked out and filed a different suit against the traders who were only tenants of the assembly.
He said through false and fraudulent representations to the court, they managed to secure an order for interlocutory injunction against the innocent traders plying their trade on the said land.
Filed application
Mr Bonsu said the KMA had officially filed an application to join the suit against the traders in court and the matter had been scheduled for hearing on February 26, 2014.
He gave an assurance that the assembly would use all legal means to ensure that the women who had lost millions of cedis through the demolition were adequately compensated, and assured the traders of the protection of the joint police and military team at the place.
The plaintiff, in his statement of claim filed by his attorney on behalf of Nana Akwasi Amoako, the head of the Oyoko (Simpinso) Family at Ahenkro in the Afigya-Kwabre District, said history had it that when Nana Prempeh 1, Asantehene, was detained in Elmina and Sierra Leone, Nana Kwaku Krah walked from Kumasi to Elmina and Sierra Leone to visit him a number of times.
When Nana Prempeh 1 returned from Seychelles Island, he rewarded Nana Kwaku Krah with the land in contention which stretched from the Prince of Wales Park through Mbrom, with the old Kintampo road as a boundary ending at Tafo junction.