AKOTIA OWORSIKA III SUBSTITUTED BY LARYEA AYIKU III vs. NIKOI OLAI AMONTIA IV SUBSTITUTED BY NII TAFO AMON II [2005]DLSC6141

AKOTIA OWORSIKA III SUBSTITUTED BY LARYEA AYIKU III vs. NIKOI OLAI AMONTIA IV SU... [2005]DLSC6141

Date	2005-01-26
Suit No.	CHIEFTAINCY APPEAL NO. 1/2003
Citation No.	[2005]DLSC6141

MISS AKUFFO (J.S.C.) PRESIDING)

MRS. WOOD (J.S.C.)

DR. TWUM J.S.C.

DR. DATE-BAH J.S.C.

ANINAKWA J.S

MR. W.A.N. ADUMUAH BOSSMAN — FOR THE APPELLANT.

MR. IVAN QUANSAH — FOR THE RESPONDENT.

[2005]DLSC6141
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >AKOTIA OWORSIKA III
SUBSTITUTED BY LARYEA AYIKU III<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>NIKOI OLAI AMONTIA IV
SUBSTITUTED BY NII TAFO AMON II<o:p></o:p>[SUPREME
COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CHIEFTAINCY APPEAL NO. 1/2003&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE: 26TH
JANUARY, 2005<o:p></o:p>

MR.
IVAN QUANSAH&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; —&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FOR THE RESPONDENT.<o:p></o:p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%;
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</div>DR. TWUM, J.S.C. <o:p></o:p>On
15th March 1984, Nii Teiko Oworsika III, filed a writ to initiate a chieftaincy
suit in the Greater Accra Region House of Chiefs. The petitioner claimed the
following reliefs: <o:p></o:p>(1)
A declaration that the petitioner is the Asere Mantse and by the set-up of the
Asere Stool, the first respondent cannot be the Asere Mantse. <o:p></o:p>(2)
An injunction restraining the 1st Respondent from putting himself up as the
Asere Mantse in the forth-coming Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs
elections and also restraining the Second Respondent from collaborating with
the 1st Respondent in achieving the said ends. <o:p></o:p>The
Petitioner relied on the FACTS and PARTICULARS to support his claim. <o:p></o:p>(1)
The Petitioner is the legitimate chief of the Asere Division of the Greater
Accra Region which consists of not less than seventeen clans or houses. <o:p></o:p>(2)
Amongst the seventeen clans or houses is the Djorshie of which the 1st
Respondent is the Chief or Mantse <o:p></o:p>(3)
For Administrative and Military convenience, the seventeen clans were in the
olden times constituted into six subdivisions as follows: <o:p></o:p>(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Dzase, consisting of 4 clans <o:p></o:p>(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Kpa-Kpatse-We and others <o:p></o:p>(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chokunna and Jorme-Ser <o:p></o:p>(d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Abbetse-We and others <o:p></o:p>(e)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tsuro and others <o:p></o:p>(f)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Djorshie <o:p></o:p>(4)
All these subdivisions had been under the jurisdiction of the dynasty of Ayi
Okun Frimpong Stool. <o:p></o:p>(5)
There are three sub-divisional chiefs in the Asere Division, namely: <o:p></o:p>(a)
The Akwashong Mantse <o:p></o:p>(b)
The Lante-Djan We Mantse and <o:p></o:p>(c)
The Djorshie Mantse <o:p></o:p>(6)
All of these are each in possession of a Black Stool and a Mantse of its own.
The left; the Djorshie Mantse was created only in 1919 by Nii Teiko Akotia
Oworsika II alias D. P. Hammond, then Asere Mantse. <o:p></o:p>(7)
However, of late the 1st Respondent in complete disregard of these overwhelming
historical facts is purporting to describe and perform the functions of the
Asere Mantse of which he is not entitled.<o:p></o:p>(8)
Petitioner has information that the 1st Respondent with the active connivance
of the 2nd Respondent is making frantic efforts to be elected to the Greater
Accra Regional House of Chiefs as the Asere Mantse. <o:p></o:p>On
the 10th April 1984, each of the Respondents filed his statement of Defence and
I reproduce them in full below: so that the issues may be clearly appreciated: <o:p></o:p>1.
Save that there are only Six Quarters within the Asere Division, all the other
particulars and matters set ou</main>