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Company News of Friday, April 26, 2019
Source: dailyguidenetwork.com
2019-04-26
SHC was sued for trespbading on the property of some people
A high court in Accra ruled in favor of two private citizens who sued the State Housing Corporation (SHC) Limited and four other state institutions for to have encroached on their property.
In 2012, the applicants, Jonathan Lamptey and Funmilayo Lamptey, sued the National Security Coordinator, the National Council for Small Arms, the Director of BNI, the Attorney General and SHC Ltd for trespbading on their property.
The applicants allegedly purchased the property from Hammond J. and Edward Afful, who had also purchased it from SHC Ltd. for 150 000 GH ¢ for a period of 46 years.
The legal battle began when the National Security Coordinator at the time badigned the property located at North Labone Estate to the Ghana National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons, which will be used as an office.
However, the applicants went to court to challenge the ownership of the property.
In their affidavit in support of the amended application filed in March 2014, the claimants claimed ownership of the land under a lease transfer from a judge Hammond and Edward Afful, beneficiaries of the estate. of the late William Sakyiama Hammond, acting through CHS Ltd.
The petitioners claimed that in January 2012, agents of the National Security Commission responsible for national security threw away their belongings and locked the premises.
They claimed that their property had been unjustifiably and forcefully occupied by the defendants who had refused them entry.
In response, the respondents in their affidavit denied that the applicants owned the parcel of land covering an area of 0.28 acres.
They claimed that the property had belonged to the Ministry of Finance since 1957 and when the small arms commissions moved in to take possession of the property, they met two men who claimed to be the claimants of the claimants still occupying it .
The Respondents baderted that the gentlemen could not provide any evidence of ownership and that, while the Director of BNI had ordered them to seek reimbursement of the sums paid to SHC Ltd, Colonel Nutakor intervened and pleaded for a meeting to be held. between the defendants and the plaintiffs.
SHC Ltd General Manager Francis Asenso stated in an affidavit that the property was wrongly transferred to Judge Hammond and Edward Afful because of their erroneous statement that Judge Sekyiama Hammond, an employee of the Ministry of Finance who then occupied the property, had: bequeathed his interest to them.
He baderted that before he could pay the indicated fees and before their title could be made perfect, they had transferred their interest in the property to the applicants and had subsequently requested that a lease be on behalf of the applicants, which had been prepared and conceded. .
He added that the Board of Directors of SHC Ltd subsequently concluded that the transaction was to be canceled due to misrepresentation and that the lease was subsequently revoked.
At the end of the hearing, however, the president of the court found that SHC Ltd could not sign a lease agreement with the applicants to transfer the remainder of its interest to them and continue to claim the title deed.
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