Church of Pentecost to pay three million cedis to farmer
Mankranso (Ashanti Region) 15 March 2000
The
Ahafo Ano South District Tribunal has ordered Mankranso assembly of the Church
of Pentecost to pay three million cedis to Opanyin Kwaku Mensah, a farmer, for
razing down his three-room building to put up a new church building on his
plot.
Opanin Kwaku Mensah, in his statement of
claim before the tribunal, chaired by Mr J.B Agyei Ben-Hene, said in 1950, he
acquired a plot of land from the then Hiahene, Nana Kwabena Agyei and let the
three-room structure to the cocoa co-operative society until 1969 when it went
out of business.
The farmer said one elder, Tekute, who
had then started a wall for the church, approached him and sought permission to
use the structure as a church.
Opanin Mensah said he returned from
Ajumako Besease to Mankranso to find that members of the Pentecost Church at
Mankranso had razed down his three-roomed structure on the plot and had started
constructing a new church building on it.
Opanin Mensah said he warned the church
members to put a stop to it and pay him compensation for the damage done to his
structure but they refused.
The members in their statement of defence
and counter claim denied Opanin Mensah's statement of claim.
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