More than 60 families, including toddlers and pregnant women, were displaced by a land guard raid on Sunday morning at Sawmill Down near Dome Pillar Two in Accra.
The inhabitants' temporary homes were damaged by land guards brandishing firearms and machetes in an effort to drive them off the land, which is the subject of legal action.
One of the expecting mothers collapsed during the onslaught and needed to be taken to the hospital right afterwards.
All 14 of the wooden buildings on the two plots of land were chopped and vandalised by the assailants, who rode up on motorcycles and threatened to burn them down if the occupants didn't leave.
The assailants, who numbered around eight, were reported to the police but managed to flee. before the police patrol crew arrived.
On humanitarian reasons, the original landowner, Nana Kwame, allowed the inhabitants to live on half of the property while he constructed on the other.
He claimed to have purchased the land in 1995 from one of the Gbese families, and that there had never been a dispute up until lately, when another family indicated that it had apparently prevailed in a legal dispute on the ownership of the nearby properties.
According to Nana Kwame, the family had sued him in court over the land, and as part of the settlement, he had agreed to provide the new family tenure and pay the associated costs.
Before they could sign the settlement agreement, however, the family claimed that it had sold the property to another individual, Ibrahim Sibie, better known by his stage name Bolumba, who also asserts to have sold it to a new buyer.
Nana Kwame claims he has obtained a court order prohibiting Bolumba and his assigns from visiting the property and that he will pursue contempt charges against Bolumba.