PANBROS Salt Limited has secured a significant legal victory at the High Court, in Accra, after the court granted an interlocutory injunction restraining two individuals, Tang Wei and Nii Adam Kwartey Quartey, from entering or carrying out any activity on a parcel of land the company has occupied for salt production since 1966.
The ruling was delivered on Friday, November 21, 2025 by Justice William Boampong, sitting at the High Court (Land Court 2).
Background of the Dispute
The plaintiffs, Tang Wei and Nii Adam Kwartey Quartey, claim ownership of the disputed land located within the Ga South Municipal Assembly.
According to them, the land was conveyed to Tang Wei in 2019 by the Gbawe Kwatei Family, led by the second plaintiff.
They argued that court judgments in their favour over the years establish that the Gbawe Kwatei Family, not the Ngleshie Alata James Town Stool, is the rightful owner of the land and that the PANBROS’ lease is invalid.
They further claimed that the defendants (PAMBROS and Nii Ayinsah Sasraku III) had encroached on their land.
PANBROS Salt Limited, however, opposed this position, insisting it remains the legal and beneficial owner of the property.
The company told the court it acquired the land through a valid 50-year lease from the Ngleshie Alata James Town Paramount Stool on December 17, 1966 and subsequently secured further licences and consolidated leases, including a 99-year lease executed in 2011 covering 2,309 acres.
Additionally, the firm holds a restricted mining lease issued by the Government of Ghana on May 18, 2023, covering continued salt mining activities.
The company argued that it has been in uninterrupted possession of the land for more than 56 years, and accused the plaintiffs of forceful entry during the pendency of the suit.
It said the plaintiffs or their agents were filling portions of the land with laterite, altering its topography and exposing the area to potential flooding. PANBROS claimed these activities posed an imminent danger to its operations and risked causing irreversible damage.
Tang Wei, the first plaintiff, denied carrying out any of the alleged activities. He argued that the laterite-filling operation shown in PANBROS’ evidence was being executed by Empire Cement Ghana Ltd, a company not party to the suit.
Nii Adam Kwartey Quartey, the second plaintiff and head of the Gbawe Kwatei Family, contradicted this assertion.
In his own affidavit, he stated that the laterite-filling was authorised by him and that the first plaintiff carried out the activity to address what he described as “perennial flooding” on the land.
The judge noted the inconsistency, questioning why the first plaintiff opposed the injunction if he claimed not to be engaging in the activity the defendants wanted restrained.
Justice Boampong ruled in favour of PANBROS Salt Limited, holding that the plaintiffs’ actions were likely to interfere with the company’s long-established occupation of the land.
The court restrained the plaintiffs, their agents, assigns, or anyone acting under them from entering the disputed land.
It prohibited any form of construction, alteration, or development on the land. The court further barred both parties from granting any interest in the land to third parties.
The High Court affirmed PANBROS’ occupation of the land for the duration of the ongoing substantive case.
In addition, the judge awarded GH¢10,000 in costs against the plaintiffs in favour of PANBROS Salt Limited.
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