The Dispatch says the law courts would soon be the battleground over the ownership of some of the choicest pieces of land in Accra. These involve all the lands behind Achimota School and Forest, from the former Dimples Inn and half way towards the Tetteh-Quarshie roundabout.

The claim of ownership, the paper says, would be an issue of an Owoo Family against Achimota School, many leading members of the NDC and a few NPP members. Until now, the battle had been between the School and the former NDC government, on how they shared out those lands among some of their top functionaries.

The tussle was first revealed by the Dispatch in August 1999, when some buyers started developing their lands but were asked to stop work because those plots belonged to certain individuals.

Achimota’s Board of Directors, which authorised the sale, was accordingly informed and land searches were conducted giving them a shocking revelation.

The government had illegally leased those plots to several high-ranking state officials and one of them whose documents were made available was Tsatsu Tsikata, former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).

Other officials, including former ministers, also had plots, which they paid minimal amounts for but re-sold at over 1,200% says the paper.