Tensions remain high in the ongoing land dispute between Tredston Empire Limited and Joyce B.B. Boakye, despite a High Court ruling that favoured the former on February 20, 2024.
The court, under Mr. Fred Kwesi Awuah, issued a perpetual restraint order against Boakye and awarded Tredston GH¢20,000 in costs, barring her further interference or trespassing on the disputed 0.86-acre plot in East Legon.
Complications have since escalated, as one Joseph Kweku Aggrey has also appeared to claim ownership over the same land.
His actions sought to delay the enforcement of the court’s judgement, despite previous dismissals of similar challenges.
Mr. Aggrey seems to have added more fire to the already tense situation, prompting Tredston Empire Limited’s Solicitors, A-List Attorneys Ghana, to file a penal action on August 23, 2024.
This action accuses Aggrey and others of continued interference with the court’s ruling and unwarranted harassment of its officers and workmen.
The penal action also targets the police, who had previously instructed Tredston to refrain from accessing the land until the case’s resolution. This instruction, A-List Attorneys argue, was not sanctioned by any court order.
According to a police report signed by ASP Samuel Dzaka, District Officer of East Legon Police Station, on August 22, 2024 Tredston’s security personnel were assaulted on December 25, 2023 by a group of about ten men.
The assailants, aboard an excavator, damaged a fence and gate protecting the land as well as made away with GH¢700.00.
Despite this, the police are yet to make arrests, as the suspects fled the scene before they got there.
However, the police invited Nana Aggrey, who also claims ownership to the same land in question, but denied engaging the suspects.
Further invitation was extended to one Nana Ofori Antwi-Bosiako, whom witnesses accused of having a hand in the matter, but he also denied any involvement in the land.
Unfortunately, Tredston Empire Limited claims it discovered from Nana Ofori Antwi-Bosiako’s letter, dated December 4, 2023 directed at the former COP Dr. Sayibu Pabi Gariba, former Greater Accra Regional Police Commander, that he had personal involvement in the land.
As a result, Tredston Empire Limited’s Solicitors, in a letter to Nana Ofori Antwi-Bosiako, through his lawyers, Robert Smith Law Group, accused him of using thugs to disrupt construction and intimidate their client’s staff.
The letter, dated August 23, 2024 condemns Antwi-Bosiako’s actions and says it was akin to “land-guard” behaviour, which is criminal in law.
Tredston refutes claims of an ongoing Supreme Court case that could challenge the High Court’s ruling, adding that no process had been served on them.
The legal team has criticised Aggrey’s recent certiorari application as untimely, suggesting it was filed outside the permissible 90-day period and urging all parties to cease misinformation and interference.
Tredston Empire Limited warns that continued obstruction could lead to contempt proceedings.
