A Spintex‑Manet businessman has filed a petition with Inspector‑General of Police Christian Tetteh Yohuno, accusing officers of repeatedly intervening in a land dispute over his 1.49‑acre property in Teshie‑Manet, opposite the T.B. Joshua Church.
Adams, who has owned the land since 2012, says the conflict escalated after he began fencing the property in early 2026. He alleges that on July 11 the rear wall of a commercial building belonging to Artin and Haykouhe Kassardjian was demolished, an incident unrelated to his property. Three days later, police ordered his workers to stop construction and arrested one without stating a charge. The next day, officers from the Anti‑Land Guard Unit fired warning shots and arrested six more workers.
The most serious incident, according to the petition dated September 14, 2026, occurred on September 9. Adams claims that while he, his contractor and project manager were in court for an unrelated remand hearing involving 11 of his tradesmen, police demolished part of his property. A police officer arrested and handcuffed the machine operator, but minutes later officers from the Regional Anti‑Land Guard Unit released the operator and his equipment and instead detained workers who had reported the demolition.
Adams has copied the petition 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. He says the Ghana Police Service is the sixth defendant in the civil case Habib Musah Adams v. Dr. Benjamin Accam & 5 Others, Suit No. LD/0580/2026, filed at the High Court’s Land Division on July 27.
He requests that the IGP order an independent investigation by PIPS into the conduct of all officers involved, identify the individual referred to as “Mboma”, and review the circumstances surrounding the prosecution of the 11 tradesmen who were remanded on September 3 and later released after a different court declined to remand them again a week later.
The allegations have not yet been independently verified, and the Ghana Police Service and other named defendants have not publicly responded. The land dispute remains before the High Court, with the next hearing in the related criminal proceedings scheduled for October 21, 2026.
