NPP Top Gurus Have 'Stolen' My Properties In My House At Nsawam--Akua Donkor Alleges
What was very painful to controversial female politician was that the then former Municipal Chief Executive of the Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipal Assembly, under the NDC administration has also joined the NPP top gurus and supporters to allegedly steal his properties from her legally and lawfully built private residence.
Freeman Koryekpor 
The Founder and Leader of Ghana Freedom Party, (GFP), Madam Akua Donkor has accused the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipal Assembly in the Eastern Region, Mr. Isaac Kwadwo Buabeng, Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Honourable Frank Annor Dompre for hiring some boys of both New Patriotic Party Party and National Democratic Congress (NDC) to allegedly steal his personal properties from her private residence at Nsawam and locked up the facility.
What was very painful to controversial female politician was that the then former Municipal Chief Executive of the Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipal Assembly, under the NDC administration has also joined the NPP top gurus and supporters to allegedly steal his properties from her legally and lawfully built private residence.
"The MCE of the Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipal Assemble, Mr Isaac Kwadwo without even my knowledge and consent brought some people to unlawfully break into my private residence at Nsawam and stolen all my personal belongings. Those properties include; monies, clothes, shirts, woman shoes, Kitchen utensils, cutlasses, jewelries, kente attires among others, the visibly worried Madam Akua Donkor told Soireenews.com in an interview on Wednesday July 26, 2023.
She disclosed that she has officially reported the stolen of her properties to the Criminal Investigation Department with the Ghana Police Service headquarters in Accra.
Madam Donkor added that she also lodged an official complaint of stolen of his properties by the MCE and his followers to the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development since the office of the MCE operates under the ministry.
She lamented that since she reported the issue to the national security authorities, they had effected any arrest as at the time she was granting this interview with Soireenews.com.
She, therefore shared her worry about how some NPP gurus are treating her.
According to her, some NPP gurus have taken all her properties including her land, lamenting that the rate at which the NPP top gurus are harassing her has made her life to be in a serious danger.
She indicated that the brain behind all these harassments is the Vice president of Ghana, His Excellency Dr Alhaji Mahamadu Bawumia, saying that the vice president invited her to come to abroad to speak, saying that this was a sinister plot being hatched by the NPP gurus to collapse her political party.
Akua Donkor, took over the property meant to be used as a slaughterhouse months after its completion.
Her occupation of the community abattoir has developed into prosecutions and litigations.
First, the septuagenarian politician accused the security guard and his son, Isaac Alavanyo, of stealing her items worth millions of cedis and caused their arrest.
Isaac Alavanyo was subsequently tried and convicted of the crime of stealing by the Nsawam Magistrate Court and sentenced to a prison term of 12 years.
His father, however, was remanded for about a year over the same accusations and was released in 2020 on bail.
But the temporary home began to look like a permanent one for Akua Donkor. After several attempts to get her to willingly evacuate the facility failed, the assembly went to court in February 2019 to eject her.
In the suit filed at the Nsawam District Magistrate Court, the assembly accused her of illegally occupying the slaughterhouse and asked the court to order her eviction.
In her defence, Ms Akua Donkor dismissed claims.
She challenged the assembly over the ownership of the structure. According to her, a search at the Lands Commission revealed that the state did not own the land on which the abattoir was built.
Her argument was that since the state did not own the land, it did own the building that became her home. The state could, therefore, not evict her, she argued.
That was not her only argument in court. She accused the MCE of conniving with the then presiding member of the assembly and the security guard to steal her properties.
She told the court that unless the assembly compensated her for the alleged theft, she would not vacate the facility.
To solidify her case against the assembly, Akua Donkor supported her claim with a document purportedly issued by the Lands Commission.
Akua claimed her search at the Lands Commissions showed the land on which the building was sited was not for the assembly
It was a letter signed by one Bismarck Ntiri Atobrasah, who is said to be the Assistant Land Administration Officer at the Eastern Regional Lands Commission. It states: “The site is not [a] state land. The site is not affected by any state-proposed acquisition by the Government of Ghana.”
The letter, dated April 26, 2019, was in response to a letter Madam Donkor had written to the Commission a day before – April 25, 2019, requesting a search to be conducted on the land.
The search report, however, does not mention her as the owner of the parcel of land on which the slaughterhouse is built.
The Municipal Assembly countered this claim with lease documents which indicate that the land was acquired by the assembly in 2014 from the Aburihene and Omanhene of the Akuapem Anafo Traditional Area, Otoobour Djan Kwasi II, for GH¢6,000.
The court ruled in favour of the assembly.
In a judgment delivered on August 30, 2019, the court established that the Assembly was the rightful owner of the facility and ordered Madam Akua Donkor “to vacate from the premises today to enable the plaintiff [the Assembly] use it to serve the purpose for which it was constructed.”
The court, presided over by Priscilla Sophia Yeboah, said Akua Donkor’s dispute with the assembly over the ownership of the property was untenable since she claimed it was the same assembly that allowed her to occupy the building.
“The Defendant [Akua Donkor] who again claims to know the owners is not in the capacity or has not been clothed with the capacity to fight on behalf of the alleged owners or challenged the ownership of that property,” the court ruled.
On the allegation of theft, the court said Akua Donkor could not prove that the assembly or the MCE orchestrated the stealing of her properties.
The court said it was, therefore, constrained to grant Akua Donkor’s demand for compensation before she vacated the property.
“If the defendant has any damages to recover, it must be from the alleged offenders [the security guard and his son],” the court said, warding off any financial liability on the assembly.
Petitions to Chief Justice & President
Despite the court judgment against her, Akua Donkor,
But the court would not have it. On June 10, 2020, almost 10 months after the judgment, the Magistrate Court issued an order eviction order against her.
A day after the notice was served on her, she petitioned the presidency, calling on President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to intervene in the matter.
In those petitions, Akua Donkor re-echoed the theft allegations the court dismissed against the MCE, Kwadwo Buabeng, and a former presiding member of the assembly, Otoo Bekoe.
She claimed she lost assets worth GH¢5.5 million in addition to two water tanks that had four expensive bottles in them.
She said she had intended to pursue the alleged “atrocious” crimes at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and as well give it wide publicity in the media.
Described by her critics as a political opportunist for her ability to switch camps to leaders of parties in power, Akua Donkor backtracked on going to the ICJ with a case that couldn’t survive the litmus test in a Ghanaian court.
“But I have reconsidered my decision because all the culprits [Mr. Buabeng and Otoo Bekoe] are serving under Nana Addo’s government, and I am also advocating for His Excellency to be given another four-year term, so if I pursue this case or publish it, it will go a long way to affect him in the impending general elections,” she said in her petition to the president.
She appealed to the president to “let them pay GH¢12.7 million to me for a replacement of the assets and the money they stole from my apartment”.
Another petition to the Chief Justice in September 2020 made a bizarre demand that the case be moved to a higher court because it was bigger than the District Court.”
She repeated her arguments in the District Court and pleaded with the Chief Justice to dismiss the magistrate who ruled against her.
Akua Donkor moved but still controls the building
Akua Donkor has moved out of the building into a place she has rented at Pobiman in the Ga West Municipality in the Greater Accra Region. It is about 11 kilometres from Nsawam. However, her belongings are still locked up in the building.
Although the court has empowered the assembly to throw out Akua Donkor, she bragged to that nobody could evict her from the abattoir.
The assembly says it is helpless in enforcing the court’s decision.
On May 6, 2021, the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipal Assembly wrote a letter to the police administration in the Municipality requesting assistance to pack out Madam Donkor’s belongings in compliance with the court order.
The police, the MCE says, declined the request with the excuse that they needed instructions from their superiors at the national headquarters in Accra.
“We have written to the national police headquarters and still, we haven’t gotten any positive response. So, we don’t know what’s going with Akua Donkor’s issue,” the MCE poured out his frustrations.
He suspects there is something wrong.
Bright Yirenkyi Kwafo, the Assembly Member for Oparekrom Electoral Area, where the abattoir building is sited, also shared this suspicion.
“Akua Donkor is very powerful and influential in this place,” he told The Fourth Estate.
When contacted, the Municipal Police Command refused to speak to the issue and directed The Fourth Estate to seek answers from its top hierarchy in Accra.
More than two years after the court’s decision, the building remains locked up and enveloped in weeds while it deteriorates.
Madam Akua Donkor maintained that her belongings are stolen from the building and pleaded with the President to intervene.
