Tse Ado land dispute: Supreme Court rejects Adolf's bid to overturn Anas victory

The Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by businessman Adolph Tetteh Adjei to overturn a previous ruling that went in favour of investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in a long-running land case in Accra.

A seven-member panel, chaired by Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang, dismissed the review application by a unanimous 7–0 decision in a judgment delivered on Wednesday, 11 February 2026.

The court said it had examined the motion, affidavits for and against, written arguments from both sides and the oral submissions in court, but found that the application did not meet the standard required for the Supreme Court to revisit a decision it has already made.

Under Ghana’s rules, the Supreme Court will only review its own judgment in rare situations — for example, where there is a clear and fundamental error on the record, fresh and compelling evidence that could not have been obtained earlier, or a serious breach of natural justice.

Lawyers for Mr Tetteh Adjei put forward six grounds, arguing miscarriage of justice and misapplication of the law, among other claims. The justices, however, said those arguments still fell short of the “minimum threshold” needed to trigger the court’s review powers.

Mr Tetteh Adjei, Anas, and Holy Quaye have been in court for years over two acres of prime land in Accra. The fight moved from the High Court to the Court of Appeal and then to the Supreme Court, which ruled in November 2025 in Anas’s favour.

After that loss, Mr Tetteh Adjei filed the review application, which was argued before the seven-member panel on 27 January 2026.

The Supreme Court’s decision effectively ends the review effort and leaves the November 2025 judgment intact — strengthening Anas’s claim to the land, which the court said he acquired from the Ataa Tawiah Tsiniatse and Numo Ofoli Kwashie Family.

The panel also restated parts of its earlier decision, including that a 2015 Court of Appeal consent judgment — said to have settled issues linked to an earlier High Court judgment by Justice Ofori-Atta — remains valid unless it is set aside. The Supreme Court noted that the validity of that consent judgment is still being challenged in a separate High Court case, but said it stands until a court rules otherwise.

Finally, the court said its decision on the disputed two acres concerns the parties before it and does not automatically cancel grants held by third parties, whose rights remain valid unless a competent court decides otherwise.

The other judges on the panel were Justice Richard Adjei Frimpong, Justice Hafisatu Amaleboba, Justice Yoni Kulendi, Justice Bright Mensah, Justice Janapare Bartes-Kodwo, and Justice Ernest Gaewu.