Building contractor, pensioner remanded for vandalising private property at Kwabenya

The Dansoman Circuit Court has remanded two people who allegedly vandalised private properties at Kwabenya in Accra. 

According to court documents, the two accused persons entered the walled land with a bulldozer under the protection of some military men and armed landguards and demolished the entire structure on the parcel of land.

The two – Rosaline Adjeley, a pensioner, and Godfred Yaw Ntifafa Tsorxe, a building contractor – have been charged with four counts of conspiracy, causing unlawful damage and trespassing.  

They pleaded not guilty to the charges when they appeared before the court presided over by Halimah El-Alawa Abdul-Baasit last Thursday (June 4).

Meanwhile, Peter Nii Ngleshie Addy, an accomplice, is currently on the run.

Chief Inspector Christopher Wonder prayed the court to remand the accused persons to allow investigators to complete investigations into the matter.

As a result, the court refused a prayer to grant the accused persons bail and remanded them in police custody.

Prosecution’s facts

Narrating the facts of the case, C/Insp. Christopher Wonder said in 2002, the complainant in the case acquired a large tract of land located at Kwabenya from the Odai Ntow Family of Teshie.

The prosecutor said the complainant took possession of the land by constructing a fence wall around it and placed it under the care of caretakers to avoid possible encroachment.

“Nii Ngleshie Addy family later came forward to claim ownership of the land and took the complainant to court.” 

“After several years of trial, judgement was eventually delivered in favour of the complainant,” the prosecutor said.

He added that the complainant subsequently registered the land with the Lands Commission and obtained a Land Certificate for the land.

After that, the prosecutor said the complainant leased part of the land to a third party who put up a fence wall around it and a single room on a portion of the land.

The third party also fixed a concrete mixer machine and deposited building materials on the land.

Again the prosecutor said the complainant granted portions of the land to other developers who put up fence walls and uncompleted building structures on the land.

On March 28, 2025, C/Insp Wonder said the three accused persons entered the walled land with a bulldozer under the protection of some men dressed in military uniforms and armed land guards and demolished all the structures on the land.