YAKUBU SEIDU vs. K. ADAMA

DR. DATE-BAH, J.S.C: This is an appeal from a judgment of the Judicial Commitee of the National House of Chiefs delivered on 21st January 2002. That judgment upheld the judgment of the trial Judicial Committee of the Upper West Region House of Chiefs in favour of the PetitionerlRespondent/Respondent who is hereafter referred to as the Petitioner and is a Prince of the Wala Traditional Area and was held by the trial Judicial Committee to be the Guli-Na, one of the Divisional Chiefs of the Wala Traditional Area. These two judgments make the same findings of fact. Where there are such concurrent findings of fact by two lower courts, it is always an uphill battle for an appellant before this Court to reverse those findings of fact. As Date-Bah, J.S.C. indicated recently in the unreported case of Wood and Ors v Oxyair and Anor (Unreported judgment of the Supreme Court, dated 27th April 2005, Case No. J4/35/2005): "Where there are concurrent findings of fact by two lower courts, an app...