In spite of a Supreme Court judgment against Empire Builders, a real estate developer, the company would not allow land developers who bought their properties from Top Kings and others who got theirs from Nungua stool enjoy their peace.
Landguard suspected to be commandeered by Empire keep tormenting and traumatizing these potential developers every now and then.
According to some of the disturbed property owners who spoke to this reporter, they acquired their lands as far back as 1996 but due to the litigation between Empire Builders/Trassacco(plaintiff) and Top Kings Enterprise(Defendant) which had lasted in court for over twenty-two years they could not work on their land until the Supreme Court pronounced judgment in favour of Top Kings.
Narrating his ordeal which some other land owners shared in, Mr. Amoah said, a land owners who has been finding it difficult to develop his land said he bought his plot of land in 1996 and immediately after the Supreme Court judgment, went back to the Nungua Stool and Top Kings whom the judgment had favoured for regularization.
But, “since judgment was passed in 2022, nobody has been able to develop their land because landguards contracted by the Empire Builders (Trassacco) will always come and harass and destroy every piece of block you put on the land”, he alleged.
“This is clearly an afront to the rule of law and gross disregard for the authority of the Supreme and we shouldn’t take it likely at all but many times we have reported them to the East Legon Police Station but the police cannot be bothered for whatever considerations or motivations knowing very well about the court judgment”, he complained.
“There are even times when they had kidnapped some of our workers for hours and taken their mobile phones away”, he added.
He said, “we are by this publication drawing the attention of the President, Nana Akufo-Addo and the police hierarchy to this blatant disrespect of the laws of our land by a foreigner”.
Mr. Oti Bonsu, Madam Caroline, Mr. Baffour, Baaba Prince, and Mr. Amankwa are some of the land owners who have been affected by the activities of the landguards.
