Accra, July 12, GNA- An Accra High Court has ordered Osprey International Limited to appear before it to answer questions on payment for 5,038 acres of land situated at Sege in the Greater Accra Region.
The said land is said to be part of the land acquired by the Ministry of Works and Housing as part of the land banks for the construction of safe, decent, secured and low-income affordable housing units for the people of Ghana.
The court said: “The managing director or his accredited representative must be in court to answer any questions on the accounts…, The fourth defendant is to consider this order urgently.”
The court ordered Osprey International (Managing Director) to furnish the court with detailed accounts of all monies that it has received and disbursed for and on behalf of the parties (Richard Dornu Nartey, the applicant) and Osprey International, the fifth defendant in the case.
“The account will include the investment, (if any), that the company has made with the amount that has been sitting in its coffers at all this while.”
The court presided over by Justice Solomon Oppong-Twumasi held that Osprey International was to file the account in the court’s registry on or before July 19, 2023.
The matter has been adjourned to July 21, 2023.
In a writ of summons, Richard Dornu Nartey, the plaintiff, said he is the head and lawful representative of the Lomotey We family of the Lomobiawe Clan of Ada.
Plaintiff said his family are the owners in possession of a large tract of ancestral lands situated at Sege in the Greater Accra Region, adding the land in dispute formed part of the lands they have owned for centuries.
According to the Plaintiff, it had come to their notice that Osprey International Limited was claiming to be acting on behalf of Lomobiawe Clan of Ada and the company was pursuing “a claim for compensation from government in respect of the said land on the blind side of the Plaintiff, the real owners of the land.”
It is the case of the plaintiff, the Lomotey We family “are exclusive owners” of the said land which did not belong to the entire Lomobiawe Clan as each lineage of the Lomobiawe Clan owns its exclusive family land in the Ada area.
In the statement of claim, the plaintiff said in the Ada area, lands are owned by families and not Clans and Stools.
