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OPERATION OF STATE HOUSING
CORPORATION (RECOVERY OF
PROPERTIES) DECREE, 1969 (NLCD
335)
ARRANGEMENT OF PARAGRAPHS
Paragraph
1. Title in Certain Houses to
Revert to the State Housing
Corporation.
2. Certain former Officers of the
Corporation to Pay for the use of
the Corporation's Property, etc.
3. Assessment of the Corporation's
Losses in Certain Cases.
4. Provisions of this Decree
generally to Constitute Court
Judgment.
5. Commencement.
SCHEDULES
First Schedule—Houses to be taken
over by the State Housing
Corporation
Second Schedule—Former officers of
State Housing Corporation to pay
certain moneys to the corporation
Third Schedule—Assessment of
liabilities of certain persons
IN pursuance of the Proclamation
entitled "Proclamation for the
Constitution of a National
Liberation Council for the
administration of Ghana and for
other matters connected
therewith", published in Gazette
No. 11 of Monday, 28th February,
1966, this Decree is hereby made:—
Paragraph 1—Title in Certain
Houses to Revert to the State
Housing Corporation.
Title in each of the estate houses
specified in the First Schedule to
this Decree shall vest in the
State Housing Corporation
(hereafter in this Decree referred
to as "the Corporation") which
shall accordingly take possession
of the said houses.
Paragraph 2—Certain former
Officers of the Corporation to Pay
for the use of the Corporation's
Property, Etc.
The former officers of the
Corporation whose names appear in
the Second Schedule to this Decree
shall each be liable to pay to the
Corporation the sums of money set
out against their names in the
said Schedule in respect of their
use of property belonging to the
Corporation for private purposes;
and in addition the former
Managing Director of the
Corporation shall be liable to pay
to the Corporation the sum of
money set out against his name in
the same Schedule being the amount
of loss which the Corporation
sustained through his negligence
or mismanagement.
Paragraph 3—Assessment of the
Corporation's Losses in Certain
Cases.
(1) The former Managing Director
upon whose instructions the
Corporation's labour and materials
were used in the building of the "Aladura"
Church and each of the other
persons mentioned in the Third
Schedule to this Decree on whose
houses certain works and repairs
were done with the labour and
materials of the Corporation shall
be liable to pay to the
Corporation the cost of the said
labour and materials or works and
repairs, as the case may be, as
assessed by a quantity surveyor
appointed by the Public Works
Department.
(2) Any person who is aggrieved by
any assessment made in pursuance
of this paragraph shall have the
right to appeal to the High Court
against such assessment.
Paragraph 4—Provisions of this
Decree generally to Constitute
Court Judgment.
For the purpose of giving effect
to paragraph 1 and for securing
the due payment of any moneys
required to be paid by any person
under paragraph 2 and
sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 3
of this Decree, each of the
preceding provisions of this
Decree (except sub-paragraph (2)
of paragraph 3), shall operate as
a judgment or order of the High
Court in civil proceedings from
which there is no right of appeal;
and accordingly, all the
enactments relating to the
enforcement of judgments or orders
of the High Court shall, with or
without modifications, apply with
respect to the recovery of land or
to the payment of any money under
each of the said provisions of
this Decree.
Paragraph 5—Commencement.
This Decree shall be deemed to
have come into effect on the 11th
day of March, 1968.
FIRST SCHEDULE
(Paragraph 1)
HOUSES TO BE TAKEN OVER BY THE
STATE HOUSING CORPORATION
House No. 185, Ringway Estates,
Accra.
House No. 340, West Korle Gonno,
Accra.
House No. 121, Osu, Accra.
House No. 179, Ringway Estates,
Accra (if by the 12th day of
September,
1968 nobody has proved himself
to the satisfaction of both the
Attorney-
General and the Inspector-General
of
Police that he is Kobina Kumi, the
alleged
owner of the house)
House No. 21, Ketan Road, Sekondi
.. (if the amount of Ną2,400.00
being
the purchase price or part
thereof, required
to be refunded by Madam Amah
Nkrumah
under the Kwame Nkrumah Properties
Decree, 1967 (.N.L.C.D. 154) has
not been
so refunded).
SECOND SCHEDULE
(Paragraph 2)
FORMER OFFICERS OF STATE HOUSING
CORPORATION TO PAY CERTAIN MONEYS
TO THE CORPORATION
Ną
F. E. Techie-Menson, Esq.,
1,738.12
as transport charges for
the use of the
(former Chairman of the
Board).
Corporation's trucks for carting
corn-
husks between Sekondi-Accra-
Shama and Agona Junction
1,080.74 as cost of
building
materials
purchased from the
Corporation
_________
Total Ną2,818.86
Ną
Mr. David
Anderson
3,726.80 as cost of the
(former Managing Director).
extension to his house at Obuasi
1,900.00 as difference
between the sale price of House
No. 223, South Labadi, i.e.
Ną6,500.00 and the price of
Ną4,600.00 at which it was sold to
Miss Agnes Yamak
.
568.04 made up of (a)
deposit of
Ną200.00 and (b) hire-purchase
instalments on House No. 450 South
Labadi, from 6th April, 1965 to
March 1966 amounting to Ną368.04
Total Ną6,194.84
THIRD SCHEDULE
(Paragraph 3)
ASSESSMENT OF LIABILITIES OF
CERTAIN PERSONS
Mr. David Anderson the
Corporation's labour and materials
in respect
(former Managing
Director).
of Aladura" Church assessed as
follows
Ną
29,660.00 (total cost of building
paid to
Mr. Anderson by the
Church).
Less 21,000.00
_________
Ną8,660.00
(deemed to be cost of
Corporation's labour and
material).
Sum payable
Ną8,660.00
Mr. F. E. Techie-Menson.
cost of extension to his house
(former Chairman of the Board)
at Elmina, assessed at
Ną5,830.00 and sum payable
Miss Vivian
Beriberi
assessed total cost of extension
to Ną
her house No. 151, Kanda Estates
650.00
Less part payment
of
347.64
difference and sum payable
Ną302.36
LT.-GEN. J. A. ANKRAH
Chairman of the National
Liberation Council
Date of Gazette Notification:
28th February, 1969.
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