REPUBLIC vs. NUMAPAU; EX PARTE AMEYAW II AND OTHERS

JUDGMENT OF CHARLES HAYFRON-BENJAMIN JSC. Nana Adu Ameyaw II is the chief of Effiduase within the Asante Mampong Traditional Area and one time acting president of its traditional council. By a motion on notice, Nana, as the applicant prays this court for: “an order of attachment or committal for contempt or both against the respondents herein.” The applicant’s ground for the application is that the respondents have shown “utter disrespect” to two of the superior courts—namely, the High Court and the Supreme Court. In amplification of his complaint from his affidavit in support of his application, I deduce that the applicant was complaining against conduct exhibited by the respondents which “interferes with the administration of justice or impedes or perverts the course of justice.” In his supporting affidavit, the applicant avers that the genesis of the present litigation commences from February 1979, when in the applicant’s view, the sixteenth respondent “fra...