Solomon K. Yeboah, Managing Director of Solo and Jones Company Limited, has dragged the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Ga East Municipal Assembly to court for failing to satisfy the terms of a 12-year old consent judgement.
According to lawyer Margaret Y. N. Acheampong, the High Court (General Jurisdiction Division) must jail Kwaw Sackey, the MCE to serve as deterrent to others.
Consent Judgement
The parties, in an earlier legal battle over the land located at Dome in Accra, had on July 9, 2004 reached specific terms of settlement which the court adopted as its judgement in the suit.
Per the judgement, the said land with two indentures- 4.59 acres consisting of 18 plots of 100 by 80, was acknowledged by the Co-defendant, formerly Ga District Assembly now Ga East District Assembly, as belonging to the company.
It stated that there had also been an acknowledgement by the Assembly that it had trespassed on the whole of the company’s land.
The parties had also agreed that the plaintiff will reserve two plots for itself and lease the remaining 12 plots to the Assembly with the necessary written consent furnished by the company.
“There will be payment of consideration of GH¢1, 800 per plot for 12 plots by the Assembly to the company. It is further agreed that the company shall pay half of the total cost immediately, and the balance due shall be paid by December 31, 2004.”
It stated that the Assembly was to use its administrative authority to prevent encroachment of the said land, among others.
Affidavit
But the plaintiff is back in court demanding the imprisonment of the MCE over what the company described as “blatant disrespect and disregard of the orders of the court and therefore warrants his attachment.”
In a 19-paragraph affidavit in support of the motion for committal for contempt, the plaintiff argued that he was forced to file execution processes against the Assembly after all his pleas fell on deaf ears.
By Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson
jeffdegraft44@yahoo.com