GEORGE A. SARPONG VS WISCONSIN UNIVERSITY COLEGE & ORS

Eric K. Baffour, J., of the Ghana High Court, decides a dispute between an academic, a former contract law lecturer and ex-Director of the Ghana School of Law, who owns a seven-bedroom home in Haatso–Agbogba, and a neighboring tertiary institution identified in correspondence as Wisconsin University. After the university built a four-storey classroom complex and acquired and demolished an adjacent house, the homeowner alleged invasion of privacy under Article 18(2) of the 1992 Constitution, and private nuisance including Friday/Sunday worship noise, blocked access, reduced ventilation, and signage misleading visitors into his premises. He also claimed the university’s officials—Chairman Justice Duose and a reverend minister—promised to buy his house, relocate him to Trasacco Valley, and pay US$300,000, and later committed fraud and deceit when those assurances were not honored. An ADB facility and a US$750,000 offer were referenced. An unusual procedural posture existed because the trial judge who heard the evidence could not deliver judgment, so the present judge evaluated the record. The court rejected any relocation contract or fraud, found limited nuisance (noise and misleading signboard), awarded general damages of GH¢10,000, and ordered each party to bear its own costs.