Relocation of traders at Akufo-Addo's residence: Self-acclaimed landowner pops up

The case between traders and shop owners around the private residence of President Akufo-Addo at Nima and the National Security over their eviction from the area as part of security measures for the president has taken a new twist as a self-acclaimed owner of the land pops up.

Mr Ebenezer Nii Ankra claims to have inherited the land from his late father who had won litigation on the said land with one Mr N.E.K Addo in 1949.

According to Mr Ankra, his father bought the land in 1945 which after the landowners resold the land and eventually led to a litigation which they won through the legal counsel for his late dad Justice Akpalo of blessed memory.

He says after winning the case his father ordered him in the year 1990 to work and regularize genuine documents of the land and begin work on it which he is currently in the process of doing.

Speaking in an interview with Nana Ampratwum on Kumasi based Otec FM, Mr Ankra emphasized that traders operating on the land do not have his permission but have only kept quiet as he wanted to complete all documents on the land before evicting them.

"I was waiting until all the documents I am working on are ready then I would evict those traders from the land", he emphasized.

Mr Ankra wondered why the President and National security had to pay compensation to the traders around his house before they vacate the place where they are operating without any permission from the landowner or any authority.

"The President has been good to those traders because all I needed was a court order to reclaim my land without any payment of compensation", he added.