THE REPUBLIC vs. THE WESTERN REGIONAL HOUSE OF CHIEFS (RESPONDENT) EX- PARTE NANA APENA III (APPLICANT) NANA YAW TUFUHENE AND 3 OTHERS (INTERESTED PARTIES)

I gather from the facts alluded to in this application that two stool families are in contention over the divisional stool of Sewum which is the Adonten to the Aowin paramount stool. They are the Apena family to which the applicant belongs and the MesuPanyin family of the interested parties. The wrangling had persisted over the years until recently when following the disputed installation of the applicant as the chief of Sewum and Adontenhene of Aowin, the Interested Parties wrote a letter to the President of the Respondent complaining about a purported confirmation by the Aowin Traditional Council of the applicant’s installation. In this letter, (Exhibit NA 8), the Interested Parties had stated that there was already in place a substantive and gazetted chief of Sewum and Adontenhene of Aowin in the person of Nana MesuPanyin III who had not been destooled. They thus challenged the basis of the traditional council’s confirmation of the applicant’s installation and sought the inte...