A Spintex-Manet businessman has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, alleging that officers repeatedly intervened on his side of a land dispute, arresting his workmen five times in two months while, he says, the men who carried out an unauthorised demolition on his property were released within minutes of being caught.
In a 14th September petition addressed to the IGP and copied to the Police Intelligence and Professional Standards Bureau, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice, and the Registrar of the High Court’s Land Division, Habib Musah Adams says he has held a 1.49-acre parcel at Teshie-Manet, opposite the T.B. Joshua Church, since 2012.
He alleges that after he began fencing and securing the land in early 2026, police attention turned overwhelmingly against him and his workforce rather than the neighbours he accuses of encroaching on the property.
According to the petition, the sequence began on 11th July 2026, when the rear wall of a commercial building belonging to the 3rd and 4th defendants in a related civil suit — identified as Artin and Haykouhe Kassardjian — was razed. Adams says he had no role in that and made no report, since the wall was not his.
Three days later, he alleges, officers from Regional Police Headquarters ordered his workmen to stop building and arrested one of them, without laying any charge.
The next day, the petition says, officers from the Anti-Land Guard Unit fired warning shots at the site and arrested six more workmen, again without stating a reason.
The petition’s most serious claims concern events on 9th September, when, according to Adams, a demolition was carried out on his property while he, his contractor, and his project manager were in court for an unrelated remand hearing involving eleven of his tradesmen.
He says a police officer who came upon the demolition in progress arrested and handcuffed the machine operator, only for a Regional Anti-Land Guard team to arrive minutes later, release the suspect and his equipment, and instead detain the workmen who had reported the crime.
Adams’s petition notes that the Ghana Police Service is itself the sixth defendant in the underlying civil suit — Habib Musah Adams v. Dr. Benjamin Accam & 5 Others, Suit No. LD/0580/2026 filed at the High Court’s Land Division on 27th July, and that the Service was served with the writ, and the court granted an interim injunction restraining all parties from the land on 30th July.
He argues that officers therefore knew the matter was in active litigation throughout the events that followed.
The petition asks the IGP to order an independent investigation through PIPS into every officer involved, to establish who authorised each intervention, to identify an unnamed individual referred to in the petition only as “Mboma,” and to review the prosecution of eleven tradesmen who were remanded on 3rd September and later released when a different court declined to remand them again a week later.
None of the claims in the petition has been independently verified, and neither the Ghana Police Service nor the named defendants in the civil suit had publicly responded at the time of filing.
The underlying dispute over title to the land remains before the High Court, with the next hearing in the related criminal proceedings fixed for 21st October 2026.
Source: ghnewspage.com
