Chief to pay 10 million cedis damages for trespassing

Cape Coast (C/R), Sept. 8, GNA- A Cape Coast High Court presided over by Mr Justice Nana Gyamera-Tawiah, has ordered Nana Oshewokaw Esaa II, chief of Gomoa-Odumasi to pay general damages totalling 10 million cedis for trespassing into a parcel of land belonging to Mr Ebu Kweku Sam and Mr Justice Peter Ansah, both of Gomoa-Amanful.
The court also ordered Nana Oshewokaw Esaa to pay GH=A258.2 (582,500 cedis), being arbitration cost awarded against him by an arbitration panel chaired by Nana Attakum Atta, Senior Divisional Chief of Gomoa Assin Traditional Area in respect of the disputed land. In its judgment in a protracted land dispute between the two parties the court also made and order for recovery of possession of the disputed land by the plaintiffs.
Furthermore, Nana Oshewokaw Esaa was ordered to account for all palm tress he felled and charcoal he burned on the disputed land during the period he took illegal possession of the land. The court also placed perpetual injunction restraining Nana Oshewokaw Esaa from interfering with plaintiff's title to the disputed land.
In the judgment the court declared that title to the parcel of land situated at Gomoa-Amanful should be given back to the plaintiffs. 08 Sept. 07