THE REPUBLIC vs. ESI TAKYIWA, KWASI APPIAH AND KWASI DONKOR EX PARTE: NANA ADARKWA YIADOM AND NANA AMA AFISEE III

This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court, Tarkwa dated the 28th April, 2014. In this appeal, the Respondents/Appellants would be simply referred to as 1st, 2nd and 3rd Appellants and the Applicants/Respondents as the respondents. The facts of this appeal are that the Respondents took an action against the appellants before the Wassa Fiase Traditional Council seeking among others a declaration that the respondents’ gate was the only gate who could ascend the Bepo Stool and that the Appellants were strangers and could not ascend the Stool. The Arbitration Committee of the said Traditional Council with the consent of the parties arbitrated over the matter and delivered their decision, which stated that the respondents’ Atweaa family own the Bepo Stool and the appellants were ordered to return all Stool regalia to the respondents, among others. The appellants being dissatisfied with the decision, the 3rd appellant and one Ebusuapanyin Yaw Nyaadu applied to the High...