Make Public Judgment Which Declare You Owners Of Kokrobite Lands ..Chief Dare Members of Nii Arde Nkpa Family
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater Make Public Judgment
Which Declare You
Owners Of Kokrobite Lands
..Chief Dare Members of Nii Arde Nkpa Family
A turf war between the members of the Nii Arde Nkpa Family of Plerno at James Town and Nii Ofei Royal gate of Kokrobite in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region over the Kokrobite kingship and lands ownership has taken a new dimension.
Following this development, the Divisional Chief of Kokrobite under the Ngleshie Alata Traditional Area in Accra, Nii Ofei III has called on the general public, particularly the potential investors and land developers to ignore the highly publicized claim by the elder of the Nii Arde Nkpa family, Mr Daniel Nii Arde Tagoe to the effect that the court has declared the Nii Arde Nkpa Family owners of Kokrobite lands.
Addressing a press conference in Kokrobite on Monday, January 10, 2022, Nii Ofei III who is the gazetted chief of Kokrobite stated that there are no court judgements or rulings which were declared in favour of the Nii Arde Nkpa Family of Plerno over Kokrobite lands situated in the Ga South Municipality in Accra.
He further stated categorically that the current public announcement being made by Mr Tagoe that the family has secured a court judgement which has declared it the original owner of the Kokrobite lands was ostensibly made to throw the dust on the eyes of citizens of Kokrobite.
Flanked by the kingmakers, elders and queen mother of the Kokrobite Divisional Stool, Nii Ofei III denied an assertion by Mr Tagoe that the Kokrobite lands are family lands being owned by Nii Arde Nkpa Family.
He explained that Kokrobite lands are stool lands under the Kokrobite Divisional Stool, warning Mr Tagoe and Mr Stanley Tagoe popularly known as Nii Amarh Fit to stop their habit of using the 1997 land document to deceive unsuspecting Ghanaians that the lands at the Kokrobite are the Nii Arde Nkpa family lands.
"We are asking or daring Mr Daniel Nii Arde Tagoe to boldly make the public for everybody to see the particular court judgement or ruling which has declared the Nii Arde Nkpa family custodian owners of Kokrobite lands.
"Which court has made the judicial declaration that Nii Arde Nkpa family are owners original owners of Kokrobite lands.
"We are saying that Mr Daniel is lying to achieve credit in the air just to deceive the residents and land developers to pave for him and his followers to continue to sell the lands of Kokrobite and adjoining communities to unsuspecting or desperate land developers," Nii Ofei III told journalists at Koklobite on Monday, January 10, 2022.
The chief was reacting to the Kokrobite kingship and lands ownership statement being made by Mr Tagoe on Sunday, January 9, 2022.
Mr Tagoe made such a false statement to the general public when he granted an interview with some senior journalists when he led the members of the Nii Arde Nkpa family to Thanksgiving service at the Church Pentecost at Sempe in Accra.
Addressing the journalists, Mr Tagoe promised better times for the members of the Nii Arde Nkpa family of Plano.
He stated that since the court has entered the judgement in favour of the Nii Arde Nkpa Royal Family over the Kokrobite lands, and that has been the accredited and legitimate head of the family he would ensure that the trouble makers who are non-citizens of the area are dealt with.
Mr Tagoe said the judgement was good news for the entire Nii Arde Nkpa Family members, adding that, the era where non-family members disposed of the family properties was now over.
"This court judgment is the beginning of the solution to solve our problems in Koklobite.
Because at the time that we are litigating the case in connection of the Kokrobite Kingship and land ownership in the law court everybody is doing what they are not expected to be done in Koklobite.
"So now that we have the judgement, those who are non-members of Nii Arde Nkpa family who initially have thought that Kokrobite is their area to dig their gold, we are going to rid them out," Mr Tagoe vowed.
This is an era of a new dawn” and called on the family members to come together and build a great dynasty.
But in a sharp response, Nii Ofei III has dared Mr Tagoe to make public the actual judgement which said that the Nii Arde Nkpa Family are the owners of the Kokrobite lands.
“I don’t know where Mr Tagoe and followers cooked that judgement from. I don’t even know where they got the judgement from. Maybe, they have their way of getting a court judgement without the knowledge of the other party,” he said.
He also stressed that he wasn't aware of any judgement from the Court which was declared in favour of the Nii Arde Nkpa family over the Kokrobite lands.
The chief reiterated that Mr Tagoe and his followers are making that false statement just to create the impression deceive the general to take advantage of the system to sell to unsuspecting land developers.
Nii Ofei III stated that he remains the only legitimate and legally installed chief Koklobite, saying that since he was installed the chief of the area, members of Nii Arde Nkpa family led by Mr Tagoe were fighting him over Kokrobite Kingship but they failed to succeed.
According to him, Mr Tagoe and Divisional Chief of Ga Plerno, Nii Arde Nkpa VII have taken him to court over the Kokrobite kingship.
But after the case had been pursued for the past eleven years after his enstoolment as the Chief of the area an Accra High Court presided over by Her Ladyship, Justice Mrs Olivia Obeng Owusua has found that the two respondents have no arguable case.
Following this development, he said the court judge has slapped a fine of GH¢6,000.00 on two respondents in a case of a chieftaincy dispute.
The cost was awarded against the two respondents in favour of the Divisional Chief of Kokrobite Community, Nii Ofei III, in a judgement declared by Mrs Owusua on Monday, March 22, 2021, following a protracted Kokrobite chieftaincy dispute.
The case was a chieftaincy dispute between Mr Daniel Nii Tagoe, and Nii Arde Nkpa VII respondents/plaintiffs versus the Divisional Chief of Kokrobite Community, Nii Ofei III (the defendant).
The judgment followed a suit filed by Daniel Nii Tagoe, Nii Arde Nkpa VII respondents/ plaintiffs against Nii Ofei, who prayed the court to restrain the latter from parading himself as the Chief of Kokrobite.
The respondents/plaintiffs challenged the fact that the defendant is the chief of the Kokrobite community in Accra, and argued that that the purported enstoolment of the defendant as a chief and subsequent gazetting was obtained by fraud and misrepresentations.
The respondents/plaintiffs in their statement of claim challenged the fact that the defendant is the Chief of Kokrobite, adding that the purported enstoolment of the defendant as chief and his subsequent gazetting was obtained by fraud and misrepresentations.
Thus the court was brought in to adjudicate upon the status of the defendant in the matter.
However, the court after determining the matter explained that the matter was a chieftaincy matter within the meaning of Section 117 (1). Therefore by Section 57 of the Courts Act, 1993 (Act 459), the court said it had no jurisdiction to entertain it.
Consequently, the court granted the application to set aside the writ of summons and statement of claim.
The court, therefore, said the matter should be tried in the appropriate chieftaincy forum which saw the court award a cost of GH¢ 6,000.00 in favour of the defendant.
He noted that Mr Tagoe and Nii Arde Nkpa Vll and their followers have taken this matter to the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs at Dodowa and Ngleshie Alata Traditional Council in James Town for him to be destooled “but they have always lost in all the cases.”
According to him, the judgement in his favour attested to the fact that he was legally and traditionally nominated, elected, selected and enstooled as the Divisional Chief of Krokobite.
He, therefore, called on the Nii Arde Nkpa family to put an end to the mudslinging against him and rather support him to bring the needed development to the area.
“In the meantime, I want to advise Nii Arde Nkpa family to desist from smearing and assassinating my traditional status, position and character,” he advised.
“Since my chieftaincy status case has now been settled, l am calling on all landowners and developers who indeed didn’t buy their lands from me to immediately come and see me for regularisation of their land title documents.
“I am a chief for everyone on the lands of Krokobite, so you must feel free to consult me to change your lands title documents. And I want to add that we shall add a human face to that exercise,” Nii Ofei III assured.
Nii Ofei III Divisional Chief of Kokrobite
