QUASHIGA JUSTICE AGBELI v. JOSEPH AMOAH AND TOGBE AHADZI

J U D G M E N T

In this suit, the plaintiff contended that his late mother, Yawo Ganyo, bought the disputed

parcel of land situate at Juapong from the late Chief of Juapong, Togbe Agbohla V, in the

year 1995. He described the land as bounded by the respective properties of one T.T. of

Adakope, Mr Dzongor, Gameli Agbohla and the proposed road from Dekukope junction

to Fear God City.

He added that in the lifetime of his late mother, she moulded about six hundred (600)

pieces of blocks on the land before she joined her ancestors and that upon the demise of his mother, he continued clearing the land whenever it became bushy. The plaintiff later

left Agbodokope in search of greener pastures but visited the land occasionally. During

one of his such visits, he noticed sometime in 2013 that someone had trespassed onto the

land and dug foundation trenches on it. As a result, he and one Zikpuitor Yaovi inquired

about those trespassory acts on the land and discovered that it was the first defendant

who had carried out the said act of trespass. He and Zikpuitor Yaovi enquired from the

first defendant about the building project he was undertaking on the land and the first

defendant made it known to them that it was the second defendant who had sold the

land to him. The plaintiff went to the second defendant in the company of his sister,

(Georgina Agbeli) and her husband (Yao Amuzu) ostensibly to enquire as to why the

second defendant sold their late mother's property to the first defendant but the second

defendant told them that he did not know anything about the issue. As fate would have

it, the plaintiff went back to Ashaiman but visited the land six (6) months later and noticed

that the first defendant had used some of his late mother's cement blocks she had

moulded on the land during her lifetime to raise a building above the lintel level. The

plaintiff thus called on his sister (Georgina Agbeli) and her husband (Yao Amuzu) as well

as one teacher Mensah Joe Lovelace Agbeli and they all proceeded to meet the second

defendant over the issue but the second defendant maintained his stance that he did not

know anything concerning the land. Consequently, the plaintiff reported the matter to

the current Chief of Juapong known as Togbe Agbohla VI. Togbe Agbohla VI then

instituted investigative committee over the issue. The said committee realized that the

first defendant was the one who used the blocks so the first defendant was summoned by

Tog