Adutso family chases out workers of Parakuo Greenfield Estate
The Accra Central Police on Thursday averted what could have been a bloodbath over a 20-year land dispute between members of the Adutso Family and workers on site working for Parakuo Greenfield Estates who are claimants to the land at Abokobi Adansi in the Greater Accra Region.
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A police contingent of about 15 personnel despatched to the scene brought to a halt a massive levelling exercise and destruction of properties on the site and ensure calm at the place.
Narrating the incident to the Daily Graphic, Chief Inspector Seth Agyapong of the Accra Central Police Station noted that last Monday his outfit received a complaint about some people demolishing properties belonging to Parakuo Greenfield Estates at Abokobi Adansi.
According to him, to maintain law and order, he instructed the feuding parties to report their issues to the police station and they obliged, and so he was struck with disbelief when yesterday he received reports of further demolition at the site.
As of the time of filing this report, both parties were locked up in a meeting with the Greater Accra Regional Police Commander, Mr Timothy Bonga Yoga.
When the Daily Graphic visited the site, the fence wall had been pulled down and a portion of the land levelled with a caterpillar.
Background
The Abokobi Adansi land in dispute is about 50 acres, stretching a few kilometres from the Pantang Hospital to the Abokobi inlands.
It is a huge parcel of land with dispersed estate buildings and has been in contention between the Adutso Family of Osu and the Nii Odartey Sro Family which ceded it to Parakuo Greenfield Estates.
However, the Adutso Family won a Supreme Court judgement on July 29, 2016, making it the rightful owners of the land.
The Spokesman for the Adutso Family, Ibrahim Jahjah, told the Daily Graphic that his family wanted peace and, therefore, resorted to both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, which ruled in its favour.
He said the family served all parties, including the police, copies of the judgement before moving to the land, but was surprised a different story was being told by Parakuo.
According to him, Parakuo agreed, after the court ruling, to pay for the land but reneged on the pledge. He said a plot of land is GHc50, 000.
But the lawyer for Parakuo, Mr Samuel Boakye, told the Daily Graphic that although the other party secured a Supreme Court judgment, his client was not served and there was no demolition order from the court or the police.
“What they are doing is illegal and punishable by law because the fact that you have won a court case does not mean you could execute it by yourself or on your own volition. There are procedures to follow; you have to serve the various parties and secure an order for demolition,” he stated.
Lawyer Boakye wanted the law to deal with the Adutso Family for taking the law into their own hands and causing destruction worth about GH¢6 million.