The Nii Odai Ntow Family is urging the Judicial Service to clarify the meaning of “PERPETUAL INJUNCTION” to the Ghana Police Service and to handle all their land cases with care and in accordance with the law.
This appeal was made during a press conference in Accra, organized and presented by the General Secretary of the family, Mr. Hislord Tettey Anang, concerning the state of the Nii Odai Ntow Family.
On behalf of the family, Mr. Tettey Anang extended a sincere apology to the Ghana Police Service for the difficulties experienced in the past years due to conflicts with members of the Nii Odai Ntow Family. “Indeed, for the past years, the police service has suffered due to the numerous cases involving our family at various police stations in Accra. We promise to amend our ways and settle issues related to the Nii Odai Ntow Family.”
Mr. Anang assured the general public, especially their tenants and those who have grants from the Nii Odai Ntow Family, that their services will henceforth be loyal and lawful. He emphasized that every family has a head and encouraged tenants and grantees to deal directly with the family head and Principal Elders for any land-related matters.
The General Secretary disclosed that since the 1904 judgment, the family has gained ownership of over 12,690 acres of land. “In 1975, our former head of the Nii Odai Ntow Family and the Chief of Ashongman (Ernest Armah Anteh) made a declaration on the said land, which was recorded by the Lands Commission. To this day, the family has alienated portions of the land to developers and even to the Republic of Ghana for the Ghana Atomic Energy project during former President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s tenure.”
According to Mr. Tettey Anang, the Nii Odai Ntow Family land shares boundaries with Akwapim Land to the north, north-east with Apkorman, Awura Dede, and Abloradjei, extending to Onyina Tiaa (tree) located in today’s Legon gardens, and further shares boundaries with the La Stool lands, Dome, and parts of St. Johns, along the Pokuase road to Nsawan prisons, joining the Brekusu road to Adjongote Hills.
Mr. Anang noted that the former Police Captain in 1904 during the Gold Coast era (Captain Philip Alexander Gosnell), who served as the head of the Gold Coast Police Force, led a committee from the Judicial Service, including the judge himself, and visited the entire land for 21 days before giving his ruling.
He emphasized that the Judicial Service is well aware that a high court cannot overturn a Supreme Court judgment. Therefore, any news circulating that a high court judge has instructed the Lands Commission to delete all Nii Odai Ntow family lands from their records is false and unfounded. “It will never be true, and we forbid it to be true. The said judgment claimed that the Nii Odai Ntow Family has extended their plan beyond the 1904 judgment, but I assure you, we have not extended any plan. All those families claiming various portions of the land do not own them.”
He further stated, “The plaintiffs in the recent high court judgment on 26th April 2024, which ruled in favor of the Nii Odai Ntow Family, should not rely on the mandamus judgment as an opportunity to act. We warn the Charlies Wallace Quist family, who are not Ghanaians but Portuguese, the Nii Laryea Tsentse Family, and others, not to interfere with our family land. They are not parties to the mandamus judgment, and the location has nothing to do with them. Before the Kantamanso war in 1826, the great hunter Odai Ntuwu had already settled on the land in the early 17th century.”
