Mamponghene Sued

Mr Osei Bonsu, a Tema businessman, has filed a writ against Daasebre Nana Osei Bonsu II, Mamponghene, and six others over the release of land at Bosomkyekye for two different people for the cultivation of teak trees.

Others defendants in the joint suit are Mr S.F. Larbi-Gyima, Senior Registrar, Mampong Traditional Council also of the Amaniampong Silver Stool House, Mampong, Kwadwo Atakora, District Chief Executive for Sekyere West District Assembly, the Sekyere West District Assembly, Mampong, John Baptist Van Berg, who is a co-director of Bonsuvanberg Farms and Global Green Limited, both of Accra.

In the statement of claim by Mr Kweku Paintsil, Mr Osei Bonsu, a director of Bonsuvanberg Farms said that by a deed of lease of March 19, 2001, executed upon and in confirmation of an earlier valid customary grant, the chief of Bosomkyekye conveyed to the Plaintiff all the 1,291.26 acres in the village in the Sekyere West District.

The claim said the deed of lease (the first lease) was duly executed by Daasebre Nana Osei Bonsu after the due performance by the plaintiff giving customary drink to the first defendant and his elders. It explained that from 1998, with the leave and licence of the plaintiff and with the consent by Bosomkyekyehene to Mr Osei Bonsu, the seventh defendant (Global Green) had been cultivating a teak plantation on the land and it was within reasonable contemplation of the plaintiff and Global Green to execute a formal deed to confirm portions of the land in its (Global Green) favour upon terms to be mutually agreed by Mr Osei Bonsu and Global Green on one side and also between him and Bosomkyekyehene.

The claim said by a letter dated January 18, 2003, written by the Senior Registrar on the instruction of Daasebre Nana Osei Bonsu, purported to revoke the first lease to withdraw his signature to it, allegedly, on the basis of misrepresentation of facts that had come to Daasebre’s knowledge after execution of the first lease.