REPUBLIC vs. NATIONAL HOUSE OF CHIEFS; EX PARTE KRUKOKO II [2005]DLCA1029

Date	2005-11-11
Suit No.
Citation No.	[2005]DLCA1029

ASARE KORANG JA

OSEI JA

KANYOKE JA

WA NADUMUA-BOSSMAN FOR THE APPLICANT.

DENNIS ADJEI FOR THE RESPONDENT.

JOHNSON ASIEDU (WITH HIM JOSEPHINE HUGHES AND ERICKSON ABEKA) FOR THE INTERESTED PARTY

[2005]DLCA1029
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B0F0">REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B0F0">NATIONAL HOUSE OF CHIEFS; EX PARTE KRUKOKO II<o:p></o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p>[2003-2005]
1 GLR 317<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>WA
NADUMUA-BOSSMAN FOR THE APPLICANT.<o:p></o:p>DENNIS
ADJEI FOR THE RESPONDENT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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JOHNSON
ASIEDU (WITH HIM JOSEPHINE HUGHES AND ERICKSON ABEKA) FOR THE INTERESTED PARTY<o:p></o:p>

ASARE
KORANG, OSEI AND KANYOKE JJA<o:p></o:p>

</div>JUDGEMENT<o:p></o:p>Asare Korang JA. On
25 May 2005 the High Court, Kumasi presided over by Ansu-Gyeabour J dismissed
the preliminary objections raised by the respondent-appellant (hereinafter
referred to as the respondent) and the interested party-appellant (hereinafter
referred to as the interested party) against an application for an order of
mandamus filed by the appellant-respondent (hereinafter referred to as the
applicant). Aggrieved by the ruling of the trial High Court, the respondent and
the interested party have appealed to this court.<o:p></o:p>What
are the facts giving rise to the application for mandamus? They are as follows:
The applicant was on 24 June 1994 enstooled as the Omanhene of Wassa Fiase
Traditional Area. On 24 November 1994 his name was duly entered in the national
register of chiefs and thereafter he was gazetted by notice published in the
Local Government Bulletin, No 16 of 27 December 1996. The nomination and enstoolment
of the applicant was challenged in the Western Regional House of Chiefs which
subsequently granted an order of interim injunction restraining the applicant
from holding himself out in any manner whatsoever as.the Omanhene and president
of the Wassa Fiase Traditional Council. It is alleged that in spite of the said
interim injunction order of 1994, the applicant continued to act as Omanhene
and on 19 April 2002 the High Court presided over by Senyo Dzamefe J, convicted
him of contempt and sentenced him to fourteen days’ imprisonment without the
option of a fine.<o:p></o:p>In
the absence of the applicant in prison, the interested party was nominated,
elected and installed as the Omanhene of the Wassa Fiase Traditional Area on
the basis, it is further alleged, that with the conviction and sentence of the
applicant for contempt, the Wassa Fiase paramount stool had fallen vacant. The
name of the applicant was allegedly deleted from the national register of
chiefs and the name of the interested party therein recorded, a procedure which
the applicant describes as contrary to the normal.<o:p></o:p>The
Court of Appeal (differently constituted) on 17 July 2003 set aside the
conviction and sentence imposed on the applicant for contempt. The applicant,
thereafter, invited the respondent to react to the appeal judgment by restoring
or reinstating the name of the applicant to the national register of chiefs and
to delete therefrom the name of the interested party. The applicant contends
that it is the failure or unexpressed refusal of the respondent to have his
name reinstated in the national register of chiefs that has precipitated this
application for mandamus.<o:p></o:p>Arguing
the preliminary objections in the High Court, counsel for there spondent relied
basically on three main grounds, namely:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;
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