Some youth burnt and destroyed spare parts worth thousands of cedis at the at Articulator Park in protest of the construction of some stores, claiming the land belongs to them.

This was despite a court order allowing the construction to go on.

Chief Superintendent Kwesi Ofori, the Director of Police Operations for the Accra Regional Command, said police had engaged the community leaders and stabilized the situation.

He narrated that “yesterday, some criminal elements brought in petrol and poured it on properties in and around the bus station. They even wanted to burn some of the buses, the worship centre here and the trucks.”

“So the police quickly repelled the attack using every necessary force to get them out of here and we succeeded in doing so. We have been able to stabilize the situation and we have been able to restore law and order in the vicinity.”

Citi News visited the scene of the clashes on Thursday and there were police vans and officers at vantage points to protect people there.

The place was littered with burnt tires and spare parts, with the thick smell of petrol in the air. Indications are that gallons of petrol was poured in and around the contested piece of land with the intention of setting the whole area ablaze because of the disagreement.

A man claiming to be from national security was also detained by police when he refused to cooperate with them.

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By: Farida Shaibu/citifonline.com/Ghana

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Old students of the school headed to court, seeking to stop the work of developers who had encroached on the school’s lands.

For years, parts of the land belonging to Achimota High School had been invaded by land guards and developers who were said to be putting up structures without permits.

But the Court on Monday ruled that, the lands in question belong to the Achimota School. The school has therefore been given the power to reclaim the lands from encroachers.

The ruling was given by Justice Aduamah Osei, after seven years of litigation.

[contextly_sidebar id=”AkAlKLIQbffkBhdsZ8Ky8lM2KyxOwtf5″]The judge dismissed the claims brought by Netlynk and 66 others against the School, and instead upheld Achimota School’s counterclaims.

The court however held back on judgement on the question of which of the 67 encroachers would be liable to pay damages for the destruction, and to have their property repossessed by the School.

The court thus ordered lawyers to file legal arguments on this question by 4th July 2017, for final orders in that respect to be made on 17th July 2017.

The court also found that:

1.The properties of Netlynk and the others are on the School’s land;

2.The Oku We and the Owoo families had no title to the areas encroached on and had no right to grant leases of land to other people;

3. Netlynk and the others were not “bona fide purchasers” and were reckless in acquiring their respective purported grants from the Oku We and Owoo families;

4. Netlynk and the others have trespassed onto the School’s land; and

5. The School is entitled to repossess its land and to damages for the destruction caused to the School’s properties including the farm and sewage system.

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By: Fred Djabanor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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