Anas Aremeyaw Anas was fined Gh100,000 by a high court in Accra for illegal trespassing and using police and land guards to intimidate one Adolf Tetteh Adjei, a legitimate landowner, out of his own land.
In a case brought before the high court presided over by Justice Kwame Gyamfi Osei by Adolf Tetteh Adjei as plaintiff over a 2 acre disputed land at Tse-Ado taken over by Anas Aremeyaw Anas in 2017, the court found Anas responsible for trespassing and illegally building on someone else’s land “using police and land guards day and night to brazenly deny Plaintiff from use of his land.”
Adolf Tetteh’s claim to ownership of the land, according to the court’s ruling, “was tainted by fraud,” Anas argued in the court’s favor.
The court reached the following conclusion after reviewing all the evidence: “The law would not permit anyone to allege fraud without proving same beyond reasonable doubt. One would also not be permitted to win the sympathy of the court by alleging fraud against his adversary without proving same beyond reasonable doubt.”
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The court ruled that Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ allegation of fraud is unfounded.
The alleged landowner, Adolf Tetteh, added a copy of the Land Title Certificate and the indenture covering the land to the court and informed the judge that the disputed parcel of land is covered by Land Title Certificate No. GA. 464555 and dated 26 February 2015.
Adolf Tetteh informed the court that his Sub-lessor had registered the land in 2007 under Land Title Certificate No. GA26393 and had always been legally in possession of it. In order to prove Adolf Tetteh’s ownership, the Sub-lessor also purchased the property with Title Certificate No. GA 19310, along with photocopies of the same Land Title Certificate No. GA 19310 and Land Title Certificate No. GA 25462.
According to Adolf Tetteh, Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ assertion that a particular Ga family had given him the land by customary grant was “just a ruse to mislead the court.”
According to the plaintiff, Anas only visited the property for one day and “caused a signpost to be erected on the land with the inscription “Tiger Eye Property.” Keep off,” and he also hired land guards to ostensibly serve as security for his illegal construction projects.
