Man Jailed For Contempt

By William Yaw Owusu

Saturday, 29 July 2006
AN Accra High Court has sentenced Peter Dankyi, a resident at Weija in the Greater Accra Region, to two weeks in jail for contempt.

The convict had refused to obey a court order that asked him to remove his property from a piece of land situated at New Weija, belonging to Mr. Fred Kofi Asare, an estate developer.

Additionally, the court ordered that Dankyi should immediately vacate the said land after serving the jail term.

In convicting him the trial judge, Mrs. Justice H. Inkumsah-Abban, said "it is clear that he was ejected from the land and in willful disobedience re-entered".

The court said Dankyi denied being served with the processes inviting him to court but evidence adduced before it showed that he received all the processes and even verbally assaulted the bailiff for serving him.

The court further said that the registrar’s representative had also confirmed that Dankyi at a point came to the court to enquire about an entry of judgment against him in the matter.

"I have no doubt in my mind that the respondent was a party to the suit; he was served with the hearing notice and was even held to have appeared in court in response to the hearing notices, but wanted to deny that he was a party to this suit", the court further held.