IGP Dampare Sued Alongside 8 Others By Former Deputy NPP General Secretary Over Land Dispute

• The Inspector General of Police is among nine persons sued for contempt of court in a land dispute
• The suit was filed by former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Deputy General Secretary, Nana Obiri Boahen
• The IGP has been accused of disrespecting a court order in a case heard at a circuit court in 2022

A former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Deputy General Secretary, Nana Obiri Boahen has sued the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare for contempt in a land dispute.

Boahen’s suit at the Sunyani High Court in the Bono Region also included eight other persons.

The other officers are DCOP Joseph Gyamerah Oklu, DSP Gyasi, Chief Inspector Mohammed Mustapha, DSP Peter Owusu, Chief Superintendent Solomon Korli, and police personnel Alhaji Shaibu, Bernard Asare, and Emmanuel Kpodo.

The case in question relates to a circuit court judgment delivered on July 28, 2022, in favour of Boahen in a land dispute.

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According to the accompanying affidavit, GNA reported that one DSP Gyasi had been sued for harassing workers on his land.

Despite the court order against the police, Boahen claims officers acting on the orders of the IGP when they arrested men on the land.

“The respondents have disregarded the judgement and have been consistently harassing, intimidating, bullying, arresting and detaining my agents who have gone unto my land which the honourable court has ruled in my favour,” his writ said.

IGP sued over promotions

YEN.com.gh previously reported that the IGP, the Ghana Police Service and the Attorney General were sued by 82 police officers.

The 82 officers said there was a deliberate ploy to deny them their promotions despite being eligible for many months.

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The officers filed a suit at the high court demanding that they be given the promotions due to them.

Woman cries to IGP over land dispute

YEN.com.gh reported about a 78-year-old woman who called on the IGP to help her get back the land she claimed to have bought in 2002.

According to the woman, her property has been resold to land guards, and all efforts to get it back have proven futile.

The old woman's daughter claims that the police were involved in selling the property and has promised to take all necessary steps to reclaim the land for her mother.

Parts of East Legon declared a security zone over land dispute

In an earlier story, the Greater Accra Regional Minister Henry Quartey stated that some contentious areas inside Accra's East Legon neighbourhood had been designated security zones.

This has become necessary because of intelligence picked up by the REGSEC that people affiliated with two feuding real estate companies, Top Kings and Empire Builders, may soon clash.

Source: YEN.com.gh