Aftermath Of Supreme Court Judgement On Land Case: East Legon Police Officers Cited In Land Grabbing Business---At Topkings Village Site
The workers alleged that they were working when armed police officers and suspected land guards pounced on them.
Freeman Koryekpor 
Police officers from East Legon Police Station of the Ghana Police Service in the Greater Accra Ghana been accused of siding with guns weirdly land guards and some macho-men to demolish building structures and physically assault the employees of the Top Kings Enterprise Limited on the vast acre lands situated at the Topkings Village site in East Legon in Accra.
One of the troubling cases in the region that has become national issue and the police officers who are supposed to see to the enforcement of law and order, are rather the ones being hired by the management of Trasacco doing the worse to the workers and individuals land owners who legally and genuinely bought lands from Topkings Enterprise Limited and Nuagua Stool.
The workers alleged that they were working when armed police officers and suspected land guards pounced on them.
According to the workers, the officers claimed to have been dispatched from the East Legon Police Station.
Martin, one of the workers, told the media that some of the land guards destroyed their electronic equipment and stole their cell phones in the presence of the police.
In a recent press conference, the company accused Empire Builders (Trassaco Valley) of using the police to intimidate, harass, and threaten occupants who are building projects on land they legitimately own.
Top Kings stated that the business owner had taken them to court and lost at every level, but he continues to threaten property and people who have legitimate access to the parcels of land in question.
The company had stated that Empire Builders dragged them into a protracted legal battle that lasted 22 years, from the High Court to the Supreme Court, with Empire Builders losing at every stage.
Empire Builders Limited dissatisfied with the Supreme Court’s decision, filed a new action against Top Kings Enterprise in the High Courts of Adenta and Accra in 2021, alleging that Top Kings is taking land not covered by the 1998 to 2020 suit, which ended at the Supreme Court.
The 2021 suits were also dismissed, as was a subsequent appeal to the Court of Appeal, it added.
According to the most recent allegations, an excavator came to their premises, destroyed structures, and abused the workers without provocation.
“One of them slapped me and gave me a heavy blow,” said another worker. I screamed and demanded to know why the police were watching the land guards assault us.
"When I complained about what was going on, one of the officers told me to stop talking. They demanded that we come out and kneel. They ruined our televisions, refrigerators, and other valuables. They also took our cellphones.
Meanwhile, Top Kings Enterprise Limited, a real estate company refuted claims that the company and the Nungua Stool have allegedly taken over a parcel of land belonging to Empire Builders.
On January 31, Empire Builders organised a press conference and alleged that its lands were taken over by Top Kings and Nungua Stool and called on the president to intervene.
But in reaction to the press conference held by Empire Builders, Top Kings Enterprise Limited, on Friday, said that the company and Nungua Stool were the rightful owners of the land situated at Adjiringanor.
The General Manager for Top Kings Enterprise Limited and Special Aide to the Nungua Stool, Dr Benjamin Danso told journalists in Accra on Friday that the land in question was litigated for more than 22 years and that the Supreme Court brought finality to the matter in 2020, with a decision that went in favour of Top Kings Enterprise Ltd and the Nungua Stool.
Dr Danso urged clients and members of the public seeking to buy land in the area to only deal with Top Kings Enterprise Ltd, and the Nungua Stool as they were the rightful owners of the land.
He said in 1999 Empire Builders initiated legal action against Top Kings Enterprise Ltd, and Nungua Stool over the land covering 1800 acres.
Dr Danso said Empire Builders, the plaintiff lost all judgements from the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.
He said Empire Builders, not satisfied with the decisions of the courts, filed separate suits at the Accra High Court, Land Court 10 Division, and the Adenta High Court, all of which were dismissed.
Dr Danso said it was untrue that Empire Builders were granted leases to a land totalling 402 acres by the government and Nungua Stool.
He said the Supreme Court judgement did not state that Empire Builders were owners of 402 acres of land.
On the two-week ultimatum given by Empire Builders for government to intervene in the matter, Dr Danso reminded Empire Builders that Top Kings Enterprise Ltd, were only working with the decision of the Supreme Court which legitimises Top Kings Enterprise Ltd, and Nungua Stool as the rightful owners of the land.
“We are not aware if the government has responded yet to their press conference, but clearly Empire Builders Ltd, does not expect the government to overturn the various court decisions dismissing its claims to the land. The obvious reason being there, is no merit in its claims and no court will entertain them any longer.
He said Ghana was a country governed by laws, adding that in 2020, when the validity of the election of President Akufo-Addo was challenged, it took the Supreme Court to affirm that President Akufo-Addo was validly elected.
Mr Danso advised Empire Builders Ltd, to seek redress in court rather than fighting Top Kings through press conferences.
“Land disputes are resolved at the court and not by press conferences or the intervention of the president,” Dr Danso added.
Dr Danso alleged that after the January 31 press conference, Empire Builders Ltd, allegedly demolished properties running into millions of Ghana Cedis on the land granted by the Nungua Stool and also affirmed by the court.
