[2002]DLSC1069 • June 19, 2002 • Supreme Court •
ABABIO AND OTHERS vs. KARIKARI AND ANOTHER
The plaintiffs, representing the Mmabaduam and Kokobeng sections of the Asona royal family of Kwabeng, challenged the nomination, election, and installation of the third defendant as queenmother of Kwabeng by the first and second defendants from the Akanwenem section. They claimed the installation was null and void for lack of customary consultation among the three royal families entitled to the Kwabeng stool. The defendants denied this, asserting exclusive rights of the Akanwenem section to both male and female stools of Kwabeng. The dispute involved the rightful ownership and succession rights to the Kwabeng stool, a divisional stool within the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area.
read moreABABIO AND OTHERS vs. KARIKARI AND ANOTHER [SUPREME COURT, ACCRA] [2001-2002] 1 GLR 381 Date: 19 JUNE 2002 COUNSEL: W A N ADUMUA-BOSSMAN FOR THE DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS-APPELLANTS. FRIMPONG BOADU FOR THE PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENTS-CROSS-APPELLANTS. CORAM: AMPIAH, KPEGAH, ACQUAH, ATUGUBA AND ADZOEJJSC JUDGEMENT Ampiah JSC. This is an appeal from the decision of the National House of Chiefs, Kumasi given on 18 June 1998. For ease of reference, since both parties are appellants before this court, I would refer to them in this my judgment simply as the plaintiffs and the defendants. On or about 18 December 1986 the plaintiffs by an oath, “Wukuda and Kwanyako” of the people of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area, initiated chieftaincy proceedings at the judicial committee of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council. By that oath they claimed that: “(1) . . . the nomination, election and installation of the third defendant as the queenmother of Kwaben...