Trader granted bail for unlawful entry

An Accra Circuit Court has granted GH? 5, 000.00 bail with two sureties to one Achawa Sackey for unlawfully entering onto a piece of land belonging to Peace Senam and unlawfully assaulting her and two daughters.

Achawa pleaded not guilty to the charges and would reappear on January 7, 2015.

Prosecuting, Detective Inspector Isaac Agbemehia told the court that the complainant is a trader at Dansoman, while the accused is also a trader at Chorkor.

He said the complainant in 1994 acquired a plot of land located at Shiabu, a suburb of Accra near Dansoman from one Nii Aku Kwadey. Shortly after the acquisition, the complainant built a five bedroom house on it and has since been living there.

He said within the same year, one Okyeame Kwadey, father of the complainant’s grantor also laid claim of ownership of the same land, and as a result the complainant took legal action against him at an Accra Circuit Court and subsequently obtained judgment in her favour.

The prosecution said the court imposed perpetual induction against Okyeame, his agents, successors in title, workers and other privies from dealing with the land and subject matter of investigation dated August 10, 1998 in suit number NO. CC.777/94.

He told the court that on August 11, 2011, while the complainant was supervising a new structure being put up for her on a vacant portion of the land, the accused person accompanied by some friends holding a bottle of schnapps appeared on the land and ordered a stop to the work, claiming that the land in question belonged to her late grandfather, Okyeame.

Detective Inspector Agbemehia said the accused person thereon poured libation on the land amidst invocation of curses.

In the heat of the event, the accused person and her friends without provocation brutally assaulted and wounded the complainant and her two daughters

He said a formal complainant was initially lodged with the Dansoman police for investigation. The accused person was arrested and cautioned for assault while her friends were at large.

According to the prosecution in the course of the investigation the case was subsequently referred to the Property Fraud Section of the CID Headquarters for continuation of investigation due to the related land issue involved.

He said the accused person was rearrested and cautioned for trespass. During investigation she could not produce any credible evidence of claim to the land in question.