JUDGMENT
1] BACKGROUND TO THE CASE
This is an originating motion on notice for the enforcement of the Applicant’s fundamental human rights to own and enjoy property, an order to restrain Respondent from further demolishing Applicant’s property and an order for damages against the Respondent.
2] The Applicant brought this action for herself and on behalf of her siblings who are all children, successors in title and beneficiaries of their late mother, Comfort A. Adjei. She avers as follows;
3] That their maternal grandmother, Madam Elizabeth Achiawa Annang (deceased), of La was the owner of the land/property located at La-Accra with House No. 49 /CI21, Ankamafio Street. That the Applicant and her siblings inherited said property from their mother upon her demise.
4] That their mother, Comfort A. Adjei in the 1970s applied for and obtained a building permit from the then Accra City Council which was subsumed by the Respondent. That her mother constructed a building in which she lived wi…