Judicial Service bits Godfred Dame, two others over encroachment on residences of former judges

The Judicial Service of Ghana has sued the Attorney General, Lands Commission, and Frimps Oil Company Limited over ongoing developments on a piece of land opposite the American Embassy in Cantonments in Accra.

The Judicial Service is laying claim to the land and six bungalows, which it says in its suit at the High Court that it is being encroached on.

Solicitor for the Judicial Service, Mandy Dzifa Kwawukume, in the writ indicated that the space and bungalows recently served as residences for some justices of the law, including Justice Yaw Appau, Justice C. J. Honyenugah, Justice Vida Akoto Bamfo, and 10 others, and one Robin Batu family.

It is therefore seeking a “declaration that the plaintiff is the lawful occupant of the land and bungalows opposite American Embassy, labelled Plot 3A to 3F with six number of houses thereon” and also “that any purported sale, lease, grant or disposal of the land and bungalows opposite American Embassy, labelled Plot 3A to 3F with six number of houses thereon is unconstitutional and unlawful.”

The Judicial Service is also demanding general damages and costs and further seeking “an order of perpetual injunction to restrain the defendants by themselves, their agents, servants, privies, lessees, grantees, assigns or whosoever from entering, undertaking or purporting to undertake the sale, lease, grant or disposal of the land and bungalows the subject matter of this suit.”