Cape Coast Hospital gives encroachers quit notice

The management of the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital has issued a 21-day ultimatum to encroachers on the hospital’s lands to vacate.

In line with that, officials of the hospital, acting on the advice of the Attorney-General’s office in the Central Region, with protection from armed policemen, last Tuesday posted notices on the encroached lands asking those concerned to vacate.

Notice

The notice read, “The hospital management wishes to sound a strong warning to those who knowingly or unknowingly acquired parts of the hospital land from Nana Agyare Kotompo III and other persons to go for their money and stop forthwith any development on the land bought illegally as they do so at their own risk.”

It said the processes to demolish the illegal structures on the hospital land would be decided after the 21 days as pertained in the Public Lands (Protection) Act, 1974.

The Deputy Director in-charge of Administration at the hospital, Mr Kenneth Dablu, stated that the hospital land was acquired by government through Executive Instrument 2002, EI 29 for the construction of a hospital and other ancillary structures.

He said the encroachers had consistently ignored the hospital’s caution to them to desist from raising structures on the land, adding that due to their activities, the land which was initially 200 acres, had reduced to 153.37 acres.

Counter claim

Meanwhile, Ebusuapayin Nana Agyare Kotompo III of Brempong Kwodwo Ebiradze Royal family of Abura in Cape Coast said he had brought a case against the hospital’s management in relation to the said land.

He said the case was before court and contended that nobody could be ejected until its final determination. 

Nana Kotompo therefore described the hospital’s action as contemptuous.

He claimed that the government took over the land without paying any compensation and that had to be resolved.

More than 50 households, a church and the house of Nana Kotompo III are located in the affected areas.

Affected persons

Mr Isaac Mensah, whose house is located in part of the affected areas, said he bought the land about two years ago and appealed to the government to intervene for an amicable settlement.