The Accra Circuit Court One has granted bail in the sum of GHC800,000.00 with three sureties, to be justified with landed property, to a farmer who allegedly granted a piece of land to two institutions.
The Court ordered that the value of the landed property should not be less than the bail sum.
Peter Ashiatey Chartey pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and conflicting grant of land to two institutions.
His alleged accomplices, Albert Awah and Godson Martey Aborbi, are at large. Samuel Essuman, who has been charged with trespass, is also on the run.
Chartey, 53, is expected to make his next appearance on June 18, 2026.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Issah Achiburi, presenting the facts, said Madam Akosua Djangmah, the complainant, is a Human Resource Manager and one of the Directors of Elite Kingdom Investment and Consulting Limited.
Chartey, the accused person, is a farmer and current head of the Chartey Wem Royal family, one of the sub-gates of the three families of the Lekpejedorm and Lekpejiti families of Kordiabe.
The prosecution stated that Essuman was the Managing Director of GEYC Company Limited, while Awah and Aborbi, who are currently evading arrest, were members of the Lekpejedorm and Lekpejiti families.
ASP Achiburi said that sometime in 2011, Elite Kingdom Investment and Consulting Limited, represented by the late Robert Djangmah, acquired 1,049 acres of land at Asuture Junction from the Lekpejedorm and Lekpejiti families, represented by the heads and representatives of each of the three gates of the family, including Chartey.
The transaction was evidenced by an indenture dated 2011.
He said the company took physical possession of the land by building a fence wall around it, and that the accused persons at all material times knew that the family had divested its interest in the land to Elite Kingdom Investment and Consulting Limited.
However, Chartey, acting together with Awah and Aborbi, allegedly purported to alienate a portion of the same land, measuring 75.65 acres, to GEYC Company Limited, represented by Essuman.
Essuman, who at all material times had notice of Elite Kingdom Investment and Consulting Limited’s physical possession of the land through its fence wall, allegedly defied this and entered the fenced land despite protests from the complainant.
ASP Achiburi said that on May 30, 2025, a report was made to the Police, leading to the arrest of Chartey.
The Court heard that Chartey, in his investigation caution statement, admitted the offence and pleaded for an opportunity to resolve the issue but failed to do so.
The complainant required Essuman to keep off the land following Chartey’s admission, but he allegedly failed and continued developing the land.
After investigations, Chartey was charged with the offences, while efforts were being made to trace the others who were evading arrest, ASP Achiburi said.
