THE REPUBLIC vs. NII ARMAH KWAFIO II AND MERCY ASANTE , EX-PARTE: NII KOJO DANSO II AND 2 ORS

RULING ON CONTEMPT This is an application for Committal for Contempt of the Respondents filed on 2nd September, 2022 and subsequently amended on 13th February, 2023 discontinuing the action against the 3rd Respondent, the Traditional council. The application which was mounted under Order 50 of C.I. 47, and was accompanied by a 29-paragraph Affidavit in Support and Supplementary Affidavits in Support filed on the 10th October 2022, was deposed to by the 1st Applicant for himself and on behalf of the other Applicants. The grounds of this application are that, upon the death of the past Acting President, Nii Ngleshie Addy IV, the position of the Acting President became vacant as a result of which a meeting of all the members of the Ngleshie Traditional Council was organized to hold an election on the 6th of July 2021. The case of the Applicants is that the said election was held in clear disregard and breach of the required procedure given by the Chieftaincy Act, 2008 (Act 759). The ...