[ 2021-02-11 ]

Vehicles of Asante Mampong MCE, Coordinating Director impounded
The Asante Mampong Divisional Command of the Ghana
Police Service has confiscated two vehicles
belonging to the Mampong Municipal Assembly.

This follows a High Court order from a judgment
debt awarded to the plaintiff, Vida Karikari, who
filed a case against the Assembly for alleged
unauthorized demolishing.

In February 2019, Ms Karikari issued a writ,
claiming the following reliefs:

Declaration of title for a plot of land (PLT 8a
BLK A)

Recovery of possession

General and Special damages

Perpetual injunction restraining the defendant,
agents, and successor’s from having anything to
do with the plot.

On Wednesday, December 2, 2020, the Court invoked
order 36 of CI 47, dismissing the defense by the
Assembly.

The plaintiff proved her claim in court on
December 22, 2020 and entered judgement against
the defendant.

The Court gave the plaintiff general damages of
GH¢50,000 and a cost of GH¢5,000.

Upon the court’s order, two of the Assembly’s
official vehicles, belonging to the Chief
Executive and Coordinating Director with
registration numbers GN 6227-20 and GN 8269-18
respectively were impounded on Wednesday, February
10 and has since been at the Mampong Police
Station.

Speaking on Akoma FM’s morning show GhanAkoma on
Thursday, February 11, Presiding Member for Asante
Mampong Municipal Assembly Godwin Anto told the
host Aduananba Kofi Asante Ennin that after the
Assembly’s lawyers couldn’t appear in court
for several consecutive times, ruing was given in
favor of the plaintiff.

It ordered the seizure of official vehicles of the
MCE and the Coordinating Director to settle the
judgment debt.

Touching on the impact the confiscated vehicles
will have on the Assembly, Mr Anto maintained that
the “absence of the two official vehicles is a
big blow to the Assembly because we are already
under-resourced in terms of logistics so this will
compound our debt as we will be forced to hire
cars and commit extra cost for the operations of
the Assembly.”

Meanwhile, Head of Local Government Services Dr.
Nana Ato Arthur, commenting on the development,
expressed worry, explaining that “all the
officers whose inactions and actions caused the
judgment debt must be surcharged and apprehended
to avoid recurrence especially in other
Assemblies”.

Source - 3 News

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