The Director of CID, DCOP Faustina Kwofie has come under severe pressure from owners of parcel of land at East Legon in Accra.
The land owners, who are the Anorkwei and Tuaka families have expressed their frustrations at the manner in which the CID Boss is vehemently scheming to take over their parcel of land.
The owners have appealed to the President, Nana Addo and the IGP to call her to order.
The Principal elders of Anorkwei and Tuaka families who spoke to this paper revealed that DCOP Faustina Kwofie is using Police Officer to eject them from their property using a Writ of Possession which had already been quashed by the Supreme Court.
It has been established that, the said CID Boss is using a Writ of Possession to claim the land and using police officers to supervise the demolition of properties on the said land.
Meanwhile, this paper has established that the Writ of Possession which the CID Boss is brandishing around as basis for her action was overturned by a Supreme Court Judgement delivered on November 10, 2020.
The Supreme Court was of the opinion that the High Court Judge who granted the order for Possession on June 20, 2020 “was bereft with jurisdiction in re-opening the case under the guise of interpreting the judgement and went completely outside his jurisdiction in a case that judgement had been delivered by him about five years ago. We therefore proceed to quash the proceedings of the 24th June, 2020, and same is hereby quashed.”
Meanwhile, it appears that DCOP Faustina Kwofie is challenging the Supreme Court judgement and decision by the Writ of Possession.
This same Supreme Court judgement make the order of the writ of possession of the high Court invalid and allegedly continues to harass property owners on the land.
This paper can confirm that a team from the National Police Criminal Investigation Department in their Rambo style claimed to have been deployed to the land site by the Director General of the CID DCOP Faustina Andoh Kwofie, who is alleged to be fighting to forcefully takeover the land in the interest of his brother, Ben Kwofie, to pull down structures.
The police CID operations team came to the land site with the same Writ of Possession which was believed to have been quashed.
It also emerged that, the Title owners of the land who first acquired the land from the Tuaka family after securing another indenture from the family of the Akwra Doku family (judgement winners’ case in the case at the High Court which secured the said Writ of Possession), making their ownership legitimate from the judgement owners.
According to the property owners, they earlier acquired the land from one Seth Laryeah in 1997 and acquired documents over the land and few years later, members of the Anorkwei and Tuaka families and the Akwra Boye Doku family approached them that they have taken the said Seth Laryeah to court and thus make them new owners of the land.
The owners then signed separate deed of atonement with the Anorkwei and Tuaka families making them securing two documents from the allodia owners of the land until the CID Boss came in to attack them over the said land.
They are calling on the IGP to call his woman to order and that as legal owners of the land, they will not sit aloft and see their property be taken over by somebody because he or she wields certain authority in the police service.