THE REPUBLIC vs. SEFWI WIASO TRADIOTNAL COUNCIL CHIEFS PALACE, SEFWI WIASO AND KOFI BOYE & 5 OTHERS EX PARTE NANA ADUA-PANYIN II

L. L. MENSAH, J.A. On the 12th of November 2015, in her absence and without notice to her, the Omanhene of the Sefwi Traditional Council Area, the two kingmakers, and some members of the Traditional Council gathered in the palace of the Omanhene, the 1st Interested Party/Appellant (hereinafter referred to as the 1st Interested Party) and together with the other Appellants proclaimed publicly that they had destooled the Applicant/Respondent (hereinafter referred to as the Respondent) as the Queenmother of the Sefwi paramount stool. According to the gathering which purported to be the Traditional Council, certain charges had been leveled against the Respondent that under Sefwi custom, the said charges were such that the Respondent could no longer govern the people of the traditional area with the 1st Interested Party and his sub-chiefs. According to the Respondent, when the paramount stool of Sefwi was vacant, the choice made by the Respondent was rejected by the kingmakers and in...