TOGBE AGBEKPO ASSEM IV FIA & ZIKPUITOR KOFI TORVINYA AGBANU vs. DANIEL KWASI BLEPONNY, MASQUERADING AS FIA OF MAFI & 2ORS.

JUDGMENT OWUSU JSC; INTRODUCTION: On 22 May, 2007, the Petitioners in this case filed a Writ before the Judicial Committee of the National House of Chiefs to invoke its original jurisdiction. In the said Writ the Petitioners claim the following reliefs: 1. A Declaration that the Bometsule Stool of Gborta is the only Stool of Mafi State and Mafi Installation Stool. 2. That the 1 Petitioner is the Fia of Mafi, he hailing from the appropriate family has been customarily nominated, elected, enstooled and or installed on the ancient and sacred Bometsule Stool of Mafi. 3. That the Anlo State Council judgment of 1950 was made without jurisdiction and actuated by malice, prejudice and vitiated for its gross infraction of the cardinal principles of natural justice. 4. An Order directing the 3 Respondent to forward the 1 Petitioner’s enstoolment document to the National House of Chiefs, Kumasi for registration in the National Register of.....