The Land Registration Division of the Lands Commission has pulled a stopper on the Nii Okpe Family over its dealings with a parcel of land-NO.TD.21159- situate at East Oyibi in Accra.
The grounds for the Caveat, the Lands Commission, is that the whole parcel which includes the affected land is covered by a transaction at the Public and Vested Land Management Division by a lease dated 26 May, 1990, between Nii Okanshan VI to Kwesi Ofosu Aduo.
“Secondly, neither BESTLINK VENTURES LIMITED nor its grantors KWESI OFOSU ADUO was a party in the case in which judgement was delivered on the 26th November, 2015, in favour of Nii Ashitey Saasabi(Saasabi Mantse) in Suit No. AL 32/2006,” the letter dated 27 June, 2023 and signed by Gloria Bananzi for the Director, stated.
The story goes that Bestlink Ventures Limited purchased a parcel or piece of land situate at East Oyibi measuring an approximate area of 176.187 acres in millions of dollars from one Kwesi Ofosu Aduo (Deceased) of Accra, after it did its due diligence at the land’s commission.
The company then lodged an application for Land Title with lodgment no. LRDTDR0059792015 in 2015. Bestlink Ventures’ application was published on the 31st January 2017 and has been in abeyance for five (5) years without any just cause.
The whole parcel of about 176.187 acres is covered by a transaction at the Public and Vested Land Management Division per a search report which revealed that the grantor of Bestlink had a lease dated the 26th day of May 1990 which was made between Nii Okanshan VI to Kwesi Ofosu Aduo who is my client’s grantor. The transaction was also plotted at the Public and Vested Lands Management Division which was executed Twenty-five (25) years before the said judgment was delivered.
What is clear is that neither Bestlink Ventures or its grantor was a party in the said case in which judgment was delivered on the 26th day of November 2015 in favour of Nii Ashitey Saasabi (Saasabi Mantse) in Suit No. AL 32/2006.
It was also an error to plot a Statutory Declaration dated 28th February, 1994 declared by Tei Tehfio, Amarh Annang Asah, Tettey Mensah and Tetteh Yankey to affect part of our client’s land since there was already a lease plotted on that polygon.
“It seems to our client that because of these very errors the Lands Commission has wrongfully issued a Land Certificate No. TD 21159 Volume 020 Folio 2080 to Nii Okpe Family over a large portion of our client’s parcel of land and that Land Certificate should be cancelled,” a letter from the lawyers of Bestlink Ventures stated.
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