THE REPUBLIC vs. EMMANUEL NII TARTEY TACKIE-YAOBOI AND FIVE OTHERS EX PARTE NII DR. TETTEH KWEI II

On 2nd June 2020, Counsel for the Applicant filed the instant motion on notice for an order for committal of contempt of court, pursuant to order 50 of the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2014, CI 47. The affidavit in support of the application is a litany of allegations levelled against the Respondents, severally and jointly, in a consolidated petition challenging the installation of King Tackie Tawiah III as Ga Mantse, following the demise, on 10 December 2004, of the then Ga Mantse, Boni Nii Amugi Soose II. In all six (6) suits were instituted before the Judicial Committee of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs, Dodowa, challenging the installation of King Tackie Tawiah III, known in private life as Dr. Jo Blankson. In pursuit of the challenge, the Respondents filed, before the Judicial Committee of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs, a Motion on Notice for an Interlocutory Order of Injunction seeking to restrain King Tackie Tawiah III from performing the duties...