Police Invite Gomoa Akyempim Paramount Chief

The Property Fraud Unit now Property Fraud Section in Ghana Police Service (GPS) has invited Obrifo Ahunako Ahor Ankobia II.

The Paramount Chief of Gomoa Akyempim Traditional Area who doubles as the President of Gomoa Akyempim Traditional Council was invited to appear before the police on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, to answer the charges of causing damages to the building structures and farm crops on the land at Gomoa Dominase which was situated on the Kasoa-Winneba- Cape-Coast main road.
 
Obrifo Ahunako Ahor Ankobia II was also charged with double sale of already sold land to the Medium Dwellings Company Limited (MDCL), an Accra-based estates developing company.

The chief was invited to appear before the police after the company which is the owner of the said land brought the complaint against Obrifo Ahunako Ahor Ankobia II.

The company's complaint followed when Obrifo Ahunako Ahor Ankobia II including some foreign nationals leaving at Gomoa Dominase has made a wrong move by giving 100 acres out of the 115-acre land already sold and registered by the company to onion traders who currently were evicted from the Accra-Agbogbloshie Onion market to ply their trade on.

This development has become the subject of raging controversy between the Gomoa Akyempim Traditional Council and MDCL which legally bought the said land from the principal elders of Anona Yoko family who are the original landowners at Gomoa Dominase.

The estate development company bought the land through a leasehold for a fixed term of ninety-nine (99) years to develop an ultra-modern One-District -One- Affordable Housing project. 

In a fact-finding mission, members of the Anona Yoko family who sold the land to the company disabused the minds of people from what they described as a pack of lies churned out by Obrifo Ahunako Ahor Ankobia II during a recent news conference.

According to them, processes adopted by the chiefs and elders of Gomoa Akyempim Traditional Council to ‘invade’ the land in question to allocate 100 acres to onion sellers to trade was totally wrong.

According to them, Obrifo Ahunako Ahor Ankobia II has created a new dispute over the land by making a declaration during the day of commissioning of Gomoa Dominase onion sellers' market to the effect that elders of the various towns—Dominase, Ojobi and Kweikrom—claiming ownership of the land in question should bring to him documents that show that they are owners of the land.

"We want to ask Obrifo Ahunako Ahor Ankobia II to answer these questions: Does he have a surveyor in his palace? Did he do a proper search at the Lands Commission of Ghana Department in Cape Coast before he took the decision to allocate a portion of the land to the onion sellers?

They described the action of Obrifo Ahunako Ahor Ankobia II and his followers as criminal.

Furthermore, the members of Anano Yoko family provided documentary proof to back their claim that the land indeed belonged to them.

This was contained in a judgement declared by the Land Appeal Court in Cape Coast dated Thursday, November 1, 1962, and presided over by His Lordship, Mr E.N.P Sowah, in favour of Kwa Ahunako (plaintiff) against the respondents, Mr Kojoe Sarkwa of Kwei Krom and Mr S.K Aubim from Kwasi-Twi Krom who was substituted by Mr Kwasi Twi from Kwasi Twi Krom.

Indications were that the land in question had been sold to the estate development in the year July 21, 2006.

The peasant farmers whose properties were destroyed by the workers of Gomoa Akyempim Traditional Council and Gomoa East District Assembly also took a swipe at the two institutions for completely not paying them compensation.

The functions of the Unit was set up to clamp down on the perpetrators of land guards and cases of fraud involving the acquisition of land or houses.

The section investigates offences such as Fraudulent Transaction, Trespass, causing Unlawful Damage, Forgery of Document, Causing or Threat of Harm.

Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater Accra Regional Correspondent