A High Court in Accra has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Chinese businesswoman and Managing Director of DHM Constructions Limited, Weila Deng, who also goes by Xiaohua Deng, and one Shirley Adwoa Ocran.
Deng, known for her multiple identities, has significant influence within the Akufo-Addo administration, leveraging close ties with key members of the President’s inner circle.
The two have been evading justice since a contempt proceeding was initiated against them for their unauthorized entry onto a property in Cantonments and orchestrating the illegal demolition of a fence wall owned by a businessman, who is the applicant in this case.
The bench warrant represents the latest development in the ongoing dispute over land in Cantonments involving DHM Constructions and the businessman.
The facts have it that Ms Deng was the first to drag the businessman to court over the disputed lands in a suit titled SUIT NO. LD/0506/2022), the Chinese businesswoman claimed parcels of land described as Plots No. M1, M2, M3 and M4 at Cantonment near the AU Village, were hers, asking the court to declare them as such.
She also wanted the court to issue an interlocutory injunction against the businessman.
However, after interrogating the facts, the High Court refused to injunct the Defendant since it was established that he had a duly executed lease from the lands commission as well as a land certificate on the parcel of land.
Ironically, Ms Deng and her company could not produce any document or lease agreement between them and the Lands Commission. Accordingly, the High Court dismissed the injunction brought by Miss Deng against the Defendant.
Following this, the businessman filed an application for interlocutory injunction against the Plaintiffs (DHM Constructions and Madam Shirley Adwoa Ocran) for an order restraining them from interfering with Plots M1 & M2 and causing the same to be served on them.
However, before the said injunction application could be moved and the same determined by the court, Ms Deng and Madam Adwoa Ocran invaded Plots No. M1 & M2, and demolished a fence wall constructed by the businessman thereby bringing the administration of justice into disrepute.
According to the businessman’s application, this is not the first time Ms Deng and her Surrogates have taken the law into their own hands in regards to the lands.
“Sometime in the year 2022, the Chinese businesswoman in the company of several land guards and thugs of Chinese origin invaded the disputed land that is, M1, M2, M3 and M4 in Rambo style with heavy machinery in the form of bulldozers, demolished the fence wall constructed around M1 and M2 as well as the two-bedroom structure thereon.”
He said he made a report of the treacherous and illegal activities of the Plaintiffs and their Chinese representatives to the Property Fraud Unit of the Ghana Police Headquarters, Accra and that the matter is still under investigation at the Police Headquarters.
“After overcoming several resistance and oppositions from the Plaintiffs and their land guards, the Applicant reconstructed the fence wall and structure for the caretaker to continue dwelling on the land in my absence. It is this wall that has been pulled down again by Miss Deng.”
“The Applicant contends that the acts of the Respondents are orchestrated to obstruct and interfere with the orderly administration of justice, to impair the dignity and respect for the court’s authority.”