Lawyers of Spartan Ives Limited, operators of the Polo Beach Club, have filed an application for an injunction in the Land Division of the Accra High Court to halt a threatened demolition of its property by the Management of the Labadi Beach Hotel.

The application for injunction follows allegations that the owners of the Labadi Beach Hotel, Hotel Investments (Ghana) Limited, are attempting to circumvent the ongoing land ownership trial by deploying the Director of Special Operations at the National Security Secretariat, Richard Jakpa, to demolish the beach club’s structures.

According to an affidavit sworn on September 7, 2026, by Aboagye Owusu Dompreh, Head of Production and Events at Polo Beach Club, Richard Jakpa convened a meeting on August 18, 2026, where he declared plans to demolish the structure.

During the meeting Jakpa informed them that the Labadi Beachfront lands fall within Executive Instruments and are therefore owned by the Government and the state. He is also alleged to have stated that the lands along the entire Labadi Beachfront constitute a buffer zone between the sea and the land and is not meant for putting up structures.

Jakpa is further alleged to have said that the Polo Beach Club was built without a permit while the Labadi Beach Hotel will be expanding and therefore requires the beachfront currently occupied by the Polo Beach Club to facilitate these expansion plans.

He is also cited as saying that he would be meeting with the Board of the Labadi Beach Hotel the following week, where he would seek a “small compensation” from them for the Applicant for the demolition of the Polo Beach Club.

Jakpa is also alleged to have stated that the decision to raze down the facility was non-negotiable and irreversible, and encouraged the applicants to cooperate as any attempt to oppose the exercise would will result in the demolition of the Beach Club without recourse to Spartan Ives Limited.

After being informed of the ongoing case, and being asked by the Applicant’s lawyers to allow the case to proceed, Jakpa rejected the idea and declared that he would proceed with the planned demolition based on his own findings.

On Wednesday, September 2, the lawyer for Polo Beach contacted Jakpa for updates, where Jakpa informed him that a consultant had been appointed by the Board of Labadi Beach to enter the Polo Beach Club and conduct a capital valuation of the club to determine its value, upon which value a determination of a “small compensation” for the Applicants would be made.

Hotel Investments (Ghana) Limited originally initiated the lawsuit (Suit No. LD/0515/2024) in June 2024, claiming the beachfront space falls under Executive Instrument land. Conversely, Spartan Ives Limited contends that the land belongs to the La Stool, from which it secured a valid 20-year lease dated June 22, 2022, paying approximately GH₵1.2 million of a GH₵1.5 million lease price.

A valuation conducted by UT Properties Limited estimates the Polo Beach Club property at a market value of GH₵41.3 million and a forced sale value of GH₵30.975 million. Spartan Ives Limited argues that a demolition would render the court’s upcoming final verdict meaningless, wipe out significant private investments, and displace over 100 employees.

Through its counsel, D. K. Nyamekor Esq. of Soho Law Consult, Spartan Ives Limited is praying the High Court Land Division to restrain Hotel Investments (Ghana) Limited, its agents, and Richard Jakpa from demolishing the building, interfering with operations, or entering the premises to perform unauthorised capital valuations,